He Wed My Shadow

Synopsis

The day Cole Carter dropped his wedding bomb on the world, I was running food at a crappy local diner. The gossip from the booths around me was hitting a fever pitch. All I kept hearing were snippets like "A-list pop icon," "peak of his career," and "crashed Instagram." Shoving the last plate of fries onto a table, I ducked into the break room. My hands were shaking, but muscle memory took over as I pulled up his Insta. The app lagged like crazy from the traffic before finally loading. There it was—his latest post, already breaking the internet. Posted 15 minutes ago. The caption was short and sweet: [Finally made you mine. My girl forever.] Attached was a photo of their hands intertwined, resting on a signed marriage license and flashing two matching wedding bands. It had barely been up, but the comments were already flooded with blue checkmarks—every celebrity in Hollywood tripping over themselves to say congrats. Cole had liked the top comments and pinned a reply of his own: "Thanks for the love, guys. I'm the luckiest man alive to marry the girl who pulled me back from the brink of death a decade ago. Here's to our happily ever after." But here's the kicker. He didn't know the truth. When he was diagnosed with stomach cancer all those years ago... I was the one who fought like hell to drag him back from the grave.