She had the entire schedule mapped out to keep you away from the wedding altogether.”

“She knew I controlled the trust,” I said.

“She slipped up right here in this kitchen about a particular clause in our family papers.

She was going through private records while acting like a sweet future daughter-in-law.”

“Look, it makes me sick,” Ethan said.

“I let her manipulate my own mother.

I let her decide who I was allowed to invite to my own engagement party.”

He put the toast back down on the plate.