Jilted Bride, Shattered Illusion

Chapter 4

Word Count: 538 | Released on: 18/08/2025

with unspoken words. Julianne stared out the window, her face a pale, em

ce, his voice low and hesi

n't loo

ad a... a bad experience a few years ago. Crowds, sirens.

entful tone of a kept man, nor the confident tone of an artist. It w

ctly. Cayla was his real concern. She was just his be

e she was very frightened." She felt a flicker of dark amusemen

hung in the ai

his guilt turning to anger. "It's

led his devotion to Cayla. And wha

, tired of the lies. She just wanted it to be over

out of the car, his touch surprisingly gentle. He guide

ss. His movements were deft and focused, the way a painter's hands would be. It

hone rang, shatt

was Cayla. His expression imm

screen. She felt nothing but

aid, her voice flat. "

dinner tonight. To talk before the... before

rius," she said, a strange, almost cruel s

. He had expected accusations, anger, tears. This

e said, waving a dis

xture of relief and confus

ack later,

she replied, not

ithout an

door. She didn't ask where h

ankle. It was a clean, physical pain. It was so much

Chapter End

Claim Your Bonus at the APP

Open

Jilted Bride, Shattered Illusion

Nathaniel Stone Billionaires

“For four years, I sponsored an artist from Queens, Demetrius Rogers. I paid his mother's medical bills, sent his sister to prep school, and funded his entire career, turning him from a nobody into a star. I did it all because he was the spitting image of my dead fiancé. Tomorrow was our wedding. But tonight, standing outside his family's home, I overheard the truth. He was plotting with his high school girlfriend, Cayla, to leave me at the altar. He never loved me; it was all for the money. His mother, whose life I saved, called me arrogant and said I looked down on them. His sister, whose future I paid for, said she only ever wanted Cayla as her sister-in-law. Cayla demanded that he not only leave me, but publicly humiliate me in front of everyone. And Demetrius, the man whose world I had built from nothing, agreed. I had tried to buy a substitute for a dead man, and this was the price. They thought I was a fool to be used and discarded. But they were wrong. The next morning, I recorded a video. "Demetrius," I said to the camera, "I know your plan to leave me at the altar. I'm saving you the trouble. I'm leaving you first." I sent the video to be played at the church just as the ceremony was to begin, then boarded a one-way flight to London.”