My Fiancé Left the Phone Line Open One Day Before Our Wedding, and I Heard Him Tell His Mother He Planned to Take My House, My Savings, and Then Get Rid of Me. So I Changed a Few Details About the Ceremony—and When the Final Wedding Gift Appeared on the Screen, Nathan Learned He Had Never Been the One Running the Con.

Not what drive?

Not I never searched your room.

Where is it?

The entire room heard him.

Grace smiled through tears.

“Somewhere you’ll never touch it.”

Nathan stepped toward her.

Ben moved again.

Alvarez said sharply, “Mr. Bennett.”

Nathan stopped.

Linda whispered, “You stupid girl.”

My mother gasped.

Grace looked at her.

“My mother called you dangerous.”

Linda froze.

Grace continued.

“She left a video.”

Nathan looked at Linda.

Something passed between them.

Fear.

Real fear.

I nodded toward Elise.

The screen behind us changed.

Melissa appeared.

My mother screamed.

Grace covered her mouth.

Lily grabbed my hand.

Melissa’s recorded voice filled the venue.

“If he comes near my daughters, my sister, or my nephew, understand something: it will not be coincidence.”

Nathan stared at the screen as though seeing a ghost.

Melissa continued.

“Nicholas never forgets a family.”

Then the video ended.

The silence afterward felt sacred.