Forty:
Lucy Lark
I was getting married.
Married to a man who had lied, betrayed, and spied on me. Married to a man I didn’t even know. Married to a man who wasn’t the one that I wanted to be with at all. But I had come face to face with Liam O’Broin. I knew what was going to happen. I was going to get married into a family, and a life that I didn’t even want.
At this exact moment, I was in my room, with a wedding dress that had been picked out for me. I was supposed to be getting help from one of the maids but I’d sent them away. I wanted to get ready alone. There was a knock on the door. It opened, and standing there was Edele. “Edie!” I exclaimed. “What are you doing here?”
She smiled at me. “I was invited to a wedding.”
I raised an eyebrow. “You were
