Chapter 4

I looked at him coldly and said nothing.

In fifteen years, I had never rebelled.

Adrian simply couldn't understand what was happening or why his perfectly supportive wife would suddenly pull the rug out from under his biggest night.

The silence in the massive ballroom was already breaking into a loud, restless buzz.

Adrian’s jaw tightened.

He immediately raised his microphone. He forced a professional smile to suppress his rising anxiety.

"Ladies and gentlemen, please excuse us. We are having a brief technical delay."

But the crowd wasn't buying it.

The ballroom erupted into chaos. Flashbulbs went off like lightning.…