Everyone Asked What I Did to Bring Down My Husband’s Empire the Morning of His Wedding Rehearsal — It Was the Wrong Question; the Right One Was Ask What I Kept

I watched the guests draw back from Roman and Larissa as though arrogance were a thing you could catch.

And I watched the two of them do the thing that people who have only ever loved themselves always, finally do.

Larissa broke first, sobbing, but her tears had lost every ounce of their old courtroom magic.

“Roman made me do it!” she screamed.

And he turned on her instantly, all the charm gone, nothing left but the thing that had always been underneath it.

“You begged for the money!” And there it was at last — their great love, naked in front of everyone, revealed as the grubby transaction it had always been.