No More Waiting, She Chooses Love

Conrad stopped speaking, but I already had a hunch, "So, her condition is to be Mrs. Wagner?"

As I finished, Conrad looked up at me, seemingly shocked by my insight.

"You seem to know her quite well," he mocked after a pause.

His words were not hurtful, but they were dripping with irony.

To think she was the other woman, the one who stole my man, and here he was suggesting that I'd somehow schemed against her.

"You're overthinking it. I know what she's up to, not because I understand her, but because her actions make it clear she's greedy for wealth and luxury," I said, as the gloomy sky suddenly brightened.

All along, I thought the transition from night to day was a gradual process, but now I realized it happened in an instant.

No wonder poets describe dawn as a daybreak.

The use of 'break' couldn't be more accurate.

From darkness to light in an instant, if that's not a 'break', what is?

the benefits of being Mrs. Wagner?" My words left Conrad stunned for a

an amusement park, but his worth was tens, hundreds of those parks. Becoming his wife meant

she wouldn't have used Aiden's life as a

just my

laugh. Did he really think

married for love and

thought of Shirley Travis, a young and fresh-faced woman, who ended

Was that love?

Love for his

after my money too, you wouldn't

if were greedy for wealth and status, I could have turned a blind eye, at least until after the marriage. That way, I could

foolish for letting Conrad walk

guess I'm just foolish," I replied,

Conrad called my name, "did you ever

all the years I loved him, he dared

satisfied with