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?

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

gifted me an amusement park, but his worth was tens, hundreds of those parks.

all too well, otherwise, she wouldn't have used Aiden's life

never wanted me, just my fortune,"

Did he really think Haley

world of the wealthy, how many truly married for love and

who ended up with Lord Clark, old enough to be

Was that love?

Love for his

why don't you care?" Conrad murmured, "If you were after my

I could have turned a blind eye, at least until

as much, calling me foolish for letting Conrad walk away unscathed after he wronged

I'm just foolish," I

name, "did you ever

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

at him, "Conrad, it's like you're not satisfied with just killing someone;