Chapter 1

1 So, I was at my bestie's wedding, and everyone's all, "When's it your turn, girl?"

I casually dropped, "About a month."

My boyfriend, Liam, immediately chimed in, "Let's just wait a bit."

We said it at the same time, and he gave me this look, like I was pressuring him or something.

"Do you have to do this?" he whined.

That night, he used the "last night of freedom" excuse to hang out with his childhood friend all night.

Turns out, he never really wanted to marry me.

I didn't even bother trying to talk him out of it.

I just pulled out my phone and texted my wedding planner.

"Keep everything on schedule."

Good thing the person I really wanted to marry wasn't him anyway.

...

Midnight. My phone buzzed. I got a video from some random number.

I hit play.

It was a bunch of people dancing in a club, and Liam, with his ridiculously pale skin that I babied, stood out like a sore thumb.

He was out there grinding and acting like he was on spring break.

Some girl came up and started dancing all over him, and he didn't even try to stop her. He let her wrap her arms around him.

When the music hit the drop, she grabbed his face.

He smirked and leaned in.

They started making out right there in the middle of the dance floor.

I knew the girl. Everyone in our circle did.

It was Liam's high school sweetheart, Emily.

Friends had told me they were like the golden couple back in the day, always together, always all over each other.

But, for some reason, it just fizzled out.

I never really worried about it then.

Just figured it was a young love thing.

So what if he had a childhood crush? I was the one he was with now.

Now?

Looking at that video, the last little bit of hope I had went up in smoke.

Liam's face blurred in front of me.

I tried calling him, but he didn't answer.

The person who sent the video texted me something super trashy.

"What does it matter if you marry him? He will always love me."

I didn't reply. Just blocked the number.

Then, I called Liam's best friend, Ben.

He picked up and I jumped right into it.

"Is Liam with you? Who's the girl he's with?"

He went silent, like he was trying to hide something.

Then I heard Liam in the background.

"Yo, man! Who are you talking to?"

"Work stuff," Ben said, trying to whisper. "Gotta go, my phone's about to die."

"I'll give you a grand," I offered.

"No way! What do you take me for?"

"Five grand. I want everything on that girl."

"Alright... but you can't tell him it was me."

I grunted.