I never meant to marry her. The veil dropped, and my stomach did too—wrong name, wrong hand in mine. “Stop the ceremony!” I tried, but the music swallowed my voice. She leaned close and whispered, “Say ‘I do,’ or you’ll regret it.” That night, a baby’s cry came from behind her locked door. “He’s yours,” she said—eyes cold, smile calm. I came to return a mistake… but what if the mistake was me?
I never meant to marry her. If you’ve ever watched your life split in two in a single second, you’ll understand the exact moment it happened to me—standing under the white arch at St. Luke’s in Austin, sweating through my tux, waiting for Emily Carter to step into the aisle. The organ started. The crowd…