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?

compared to the benefits of being

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

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

my fortune,"

help but mockingly laugh. Did he

how many truly married for love and not

Travis, a young and fresh-faced woman, who ended

Was that love?

for his

why don't you care?" Conrad murmured, "If you were after my money too, you wouldn't have... left me because of her,

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

much, calling me foolish for letting

I'm just foolish,"

"did you ever

I loved him, he dared to ask if

you're not satisfied