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.

I continued.

Use it shamelessly.

Buy something impractical.

Travel.

Fall in love again if you want to.

That line broke me.

I covered my face.

Ben put his hand on my shoulder.

After a moment, I read the rest.

But if the person you fall in love with asks too many questions about money, kick him in the shin for me.

I laughed so hard I sobbed.

Mr. Feldman waited.

At the bottom, Melissa had written:

3W. Never let go.

Love,

Mel.

I looked at Mr. Feldman.

“How much?”

He turned another page.

$3.2 million.

I stared at it.

Then I thought of Nathan saying he would take my savings.

My “little consulting savings.”

He had spent nearly two years circling nineteen million dollars.

And he had never known about the additional three million protected specifically for me.

But something still bothered me.

“How did Nathan know the trust existed?”

That question took weeks to answer.