“You should have told me,” I said.
“I know. I was wrong.”
It hurt, but it was also sincere. Ethan wasn’t perfect. He was good. There was a difference.
I took his hand. “Today isn’t about humiliating anyone for the sake of it. It’s about protecting something good.”
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. He nodded. “Tell me what you need.”
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At 10:30 a.m., the bridesmaids realized the schedule was no longer in their hands. Vanessa called six times. Kendra knocked on the suite door. Someone texted: “Where are you? Hairstyling has arrived.” Marissa replied via the wedding account with a simple message: “Schedule updated. Please be at the reception venue before 1 p.m.”
Upon their arrival, two surprises awaited them.
First, they were no longer part of the wedding procession. Their names had been removed from the reprinted program. Instead of the list of bridesmaids, it now read: “The bride is accompanied today by her family and lifelong friends, whose love has brought her here.”
Second, they were placed in the second row, on the opposite side, escorted there by staff polite enough to ensure there was no room for an incident.
Vanessa tried anyway.
She cornered me in the corridor, in front of the bride’s room, a quarter of an hour before the ceremony, her face pale with anger under impeccable makeup.
“What the hell is this?” she hissed. “You can’t do this to me on your wedding day.”
I observed her closely, this woman in whom I had once trusted like a sister, and who had responded to that trust with a desire sharpened to the point of sabotage.
“I’ve already done that,” I replied.
Her mouth opened abruptly. “Because of a private conversation?”
“Because you planned to destroy my dress, lose my rings, and you bragged about trying to sleep with my fiancée.”
“That’s not what I meant.”
I almost smiled. “I recorded it.”
For the first time that morning, she seemed frightened.
Then she said the thing that revealed everything. “So you’re throwing away years of friendship for a man?”
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