“I hired you on purpose,” she said. “Every meeting. Every impossible demand. Every insult. I wanted to watch you bend. I wanted you exhausted, terrified, and desperate.”
Sean looked between us.
“Vanessa, what…”
She raised one finger without looking at him. “Be quiet. The adults are talking.”
He obeyed.
“I wanted you exhausted, terrified, and desperate.”
“I wanted your husband. Your home. Your career,” she said. “I wanted you to walk into the wedding you had built and discover that every beautiful thing around you had been designed to destroy you.”
My mouth went dry.
She’d calculated this entire wedding just to hurt me… but why?
A few guests stood.
She’d calculated this entire wedding just to hurt me… but why?
One bridesmaid covered her mouth.
Sean stepped back from her.
Vanessa didn’t care.
Her eyes stayed on me.
“Why go to all this trouble?”
My voice was barely a whisper, but the microphone picked it up loud and clear.
