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?

be valuable, but what's that compared to the benefits of being Mrs. Wagner?" My words left

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

wouldn't have used Aiden's life as

wanted me, just my fortune," Conrad said

help but mockingly laugh. Did he really think Haley loved

many truly married for love

young and fresh-faced woman, who ended up with Lord Clark,

Was that love?

Love for his

murmured, "If you were after my money too, you

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

much, calling me foolish for

just foolish," I replied,

called my name, "did you ever truly

After all the years I loved him, he dared to ask

"Conrad, it's like you're not satisfied with just killing someone; you have to dismember them