Chapter 11
When I got back home, I still had to cancel the photographer, the caterer, the florist, the damn DJ.
All those months of planning, and now all it took was a one–line group text:
‘Hey, change of plans–wedding’s off. Thanks anyway.”
Once everything was canceled, I collapsed onto my bed.
played that engagement video–the one that went viral, the one with ten thousand comments full of blessings.
Watched it over. And over. And over.
Then finally, with shaking hands, I deleted it.
The second it was gone, I swear, my heart stopped for a moment.
But I also felt… free.
Thank God we never signed the papers.
Thank God I hadn’t had the baby yet.
Because I don’t know if I’d have had the strength to leave him
f I’d already married that piece of shit.
I slept straight through until the afternoon.
When I finally came out of my room, my parents were in the kitchen, moving like they were walking on glass.
They were trying not to say the wrong thing.
Because today was supposed to be my wedding day.
smiled at them and said, like it was any other day,
So what are we doing for dinner?”
My mom’s face crumpled.
Sophia… sweetheart… you don’t have to pretend for us.”
If you want to cry, cry. You don’t have to hold it in.”
And suddenly it hit me–I hadn’t shed a single tear since last night.
Not one.
I didn’t want to look weak in front of friends or family.
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Didn’t want to give outsiders the satisfaction of watching me fall apart.
I thought I was strong.
Thought I looked fierce, slapping those two around like a damn queen.
But the truth is… I was wrecked.
The moment she said that,
Something inside me cracked open.
The tears came pouring out–big, ugly sobs.
My mom held me. Then my dad held both of us.
I cried for a long, long time.
And that’s when we heard the knock on the door.
It was Liam.
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