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The front door was slightly ajar, so I stepped inside without knocking, the soft soles of my sneakers making zero sound against the polished hardwood floor.
“Are you absolutely certain she won’t notice anything when the papers are brought out tomorrow?” Jason asked, his tone laced with a nervous, hurried edge.
I froze in my tracks, my hand hovering an inch above the wall.
My parents had prepared a revised, heavily altered set of financial documents and planned to slip them into my signing folder right after the ceremony—at the exact moment I would be far too distracted by photographers, champagne toasts, and wedding chaos to read the dense fine print.
Their master plan?
Jason, the man I had loved for three years, genuinely believed that marrying me would make executing their fraudulent scheme even easier because he would officially be my legal spouse.
My mother answered calmly, her voice dripping with the cold, unbothered efficiency she used when managing domestic affairs:
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