And Caleb stepped out beside me in custom velvet tuxedos.
The silence became almost impossible to breathe through.
Because every single boy looked exactly like Ethan Montgomery.
Above us, Eleanor’s champagne glass slipped from her fingers and shattered across the marble balcony floor.
Slowly, I raised my eyes to meet hers.
And smiled.
That was the precise moment everyone on the estate understood that the wedding of the year had just turned into the scandal of the decade.
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