Over the following days, the pieces came together.
The hotel records established when Vanessa had entered the room. The venue footage showed her accessing the office computer. The email logs connected the fabricated message to an account created with information available in the shared wedding files.
Emily’s former employer confirmed that she had retained unauthorized copies of certain client documents after leaving the company. When confronted with the records, Emily admitted that she had given Vanessa access to some of the files and helped assemble selected screenshots.
She claimed she had not known Vanessa intended to ruin the wedding.
Vanessa insisted that she had only wanted Ethan to understand the truth about me.
Neither explanation changed what the evidence showed.
The screenshots had been altered. The email had been fabricated. The plan to interfere with the dress and rings had been discussed in advance. The public display at the reception had been prepared to embarrass me if the other attempts failed.
