On her wedding day, a bride is left at the altar by her fiancé and her own sister — then vanishes without a trace. Eight years later, her disappearance still haunts the family she left behind, and the truth of what happened is waiting to surface.
the same line fiona you're more mature than she is don't make a big deal out of this miles had known me longer than anyone yet he always took her side then nolan entered my life and pursued me relentlessly the man known throughout the underworld for his ruthlessness and would personally drive me home late at night and tell me my quiet, absent-minded ways were
adorable. I thought he liked me that way. But after he met Daphne, his preferences seemed to change. Without realizing it, he began saying that women should be lively and One day, I finally said, can you stop being so close to Daphne? You need better boundaries with her. I thought he would understand. Instead, he laughed, ruffled my hair, and dismissed it.
Boundaries. Once you marry me, Daphne will be part of the Hayes family too. Do you expect me to treat her like a stranger? I fell silent. Of course, I didn't want them at each other's throats. But the you are more mature, so you should be more understanding, had weighed on me for years.
For the first time, those words felt heavy enough to suffocate me. They had forgotten that only two years older than she was. I wanted gifts too. I wanted someone to ask me, do you like this? But no one ever cared. I called my landlord and told him I was moving out I'm moving out today.
Are you sure? You've lived there more than four years. four years when nolan and i first started dating he had wanted me to move into the hayes estate a heavily guarded compound where his most trusted family members lived daphne said i some private space before marriage and suggested i live alone so i rented this apartment near the
family's downtown headquarters hoping i would see nolan more often he agreed and every now and then