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.

Nathan no longer looked angry.

He looked cornered.

Linda began walking toward the door.

The second investigator stepped into her path.

“Linda Bennett?”

She stopped.

“We need to speak with you as well.”

“I want a lawyer.”

“That is your right.”

Nathan glared at me.

“This proves nothing.”

I looked at him.

“Maybe.”

He smiled.

“There you go.”

“But it proves enough for me.”

I removed my engagement ring.

Nathan watched.

I placed it on the altar.

“I don’t want your house,” he said suddenly.

I almost laughed.

“No?”

“No.”

“Then why prepare the documents?”

“For us.”

“Why use a fake name?”

“It isn’t fake.”

“Why call your wife your mother?”

The crowd erupted again.

Nathan shouted, “Because you wouldn’t have understood!”

That sentence silenced everyone.

I stared at him.

“What exactly was I supposed to understand?”

Linda closed her eyes.

Nathan realized he had lost control.