My name is Madison Wells, and I thought my boyfriend loved me.

He was drugging me at parties.

Assaulting me while I was unconscious.

Planning to steal my twenty-million-dollar trust fund through marriage and pregnancy.

My roommate was helping him.

For two years, I lived a lie.

But Connor Mitchell made one fatal mistake—he told me I was carrying his child.

The DNA test said otherwise. The real father? The man who'd been secretly protecting me all along.

When I discovered the truth, I didn't run. I didn't hide. I didn't break down.

I planned.

The Wedding’s Dark Secret


The library's fourth floor was nearly empty at 4 PM on Thursday. I'd claimed a corner table between dusty legal volumes, spreading out criminal law textbooks while my real focus remained on the notebook in front of me.
Connor's name sat in the center like a spider, with lines connecting to Jake, ...

Chapter 3