I Was His Wife in Name Only

Synopsis

Two years into her marriage to Lucas Carter, Emily finally made up her mind to change her last name. The clerk went through her file. "Emily Carter. Twenty-three. Marital status, single." "Hold on, I've been married for two years!" Emily pulled out her marriage license. A few minutes later, the clerk handed everything back with a strange look. "Ms. Carter, I'd take this down to City Hall and ask. You can change your name without being married, of course. Do you still want to go ahead?" Emily couldn't think straight. She got a cab to the city hall. What she found there took the floor out from under her. "Ma'am, the spouse on Lucas Carter's marriage license is Anna Reed, not you." Emily went white, and a sharp ringing started up in her deaf right ear. One thought ran through her before she went down. Wasn't Anna supposed to be a stand-in? Lucas had only found her to fill the gap while Emily was overseas for three years, so how had she ended up as Mrs. Carter?