My Fake Husband Was Searching For His Childhood Sweetheart — But His Ex Stole My Identity
Part 2
The room spun as my eyes traced the jagged edges of the dark star on her skin.
Tyler brushed past me, his expression crumbling into shock as he stared at her wrist.
He reached out to trace the mark, his fingers trembling slightly.
I clamped my jaw shut, burying my hands deep in my pockets to hide my own faded scar.
Brenda smiled sweetly up at him, spinning a web of lies about how much she had missed him.
I backed out of the room quietly, leaving them standing together in the center of the penthouse.
The following days became a waking nightmare of escalating sabotage.
Craig, Brenda’s powerful father, leveraged his position as the foundation president to make Tyler’s life a living hell.
He demanded Tyler drop out of the tournament and leave me to marry Brenda instead.
When Tyler outright refused, the real attacks began.
Someone swapped Tyler’s pre-match water bottle with one laced with banned substances.
I barely managed to knock the bottle from his hands before he took a sip.
The foundation’s officials swarmed his locker room moments later, demanding an immediate drug test.
Tyler passed, but the sinister warning was clear.
They didn’t stop at trying to ruin his pristine reputation.
On the eve of the most crucial qualifying match, I was grabbed outside the training center by a hired thug.
Tyler abandoned his warm-up entirely, sprinting across the grounds to pull the attacker off me.
He took a heavy blow to his riding arm during the scuffle, fracturing his wrist.
The foundation’s medical staff immediately declared him unfit to ride.
Craig stood in the sterile clinic hallway, a smug grin plastered across his face as he offered Tyler an ultimatum.
If Tyler signed the annulment papers and publicly claimed Brenda as his fiancee, Craig would grant him a special medical exemption to compete.
If he refused, the foundation would issue a permanent ban for the alleged doping violation they had conveniently fabricated.
I sat beside Tyler’s hospital bed, icing his swollen arm as he stared blankly at the wall.
He had given up everything to protect me, and now his lifelong dream was slipping through his fingers.
I knew the truth about the orphanage, and I knew Brenda’s birthmark was a complete forgery.
But without my own mark to prove my identity, my words would sound like the desperate lies of a jealous fake wife.
With Craig threatening to destroy Tyler’s career and Brenda holding the only ‘proof’ of his past, how could I expose her lies without losing the man I was finally starting to love?
Part 3
Megan exposed Brenda’s lies not with a fading scar, but by recalling a fragile memory only the real orphan girl could know.
She proved her identity by humming the exact lullaby they used to share when the orphanage kitchen ran out of bread.
But reaching that moment of absolute clarity required surviving a trial that nearly broke them both.
The nightmare had started six weeks earlier in the sterile, suffocating silence of a luxury hotel suite.
Megan scrubbed the marble countertops of room 412, her uniform clinging to her shoulders after a grueling twelve-hour shift.
The heavy scent of industrial bleach burned the inside of her nose.
She wiped down the massive mirrors, her reflection staring back with exhausted, hollow eyes.
A sudden, heavy wave of dizziness hit her out of nowhere.
Her hands began to shake uncontrollably.
She leaned against the bathroom doorframe, trying to steady her trembling legs.
The complimentary water bottle she had taken from the housekeeping cart rolled across the plush carpet.
The room began to spin violently, the expensive furniture blurring together.
She stumbled toward the massive king bed, collapsing onto the edge just as the heavy oak doors burst open.
Blinding camera flashes erupted like lightning in the dim room.
A chorus of aggressive shouts bounced off the walls.
Tyler groaned from the other side of the mattress, throwing a heavy arm over his face to block the intrusive glare.
He was the city’s golden boy, an elite equestrian champion with a pristine reputation.
His presence in the room made absolutely no sense.
Megan squeezed her eyes shut, pulling the hotel duvet tightly around her shoulders.
She tried to sit up, but the room tilted dangerously.
Hotel security finally barged in, shoving the ruthless paparazzi out into the brightly lit hallway.
The heavy doors clicked shut, leaving a heavy, suffocating silence in their wake.
Tyler sat up slowly, running a hand through his disheveled hair.
He refused to meet her terrified gaze.
He stared at the floor, his jaw working as he processed the disaster.
The silence stretched between them, thick with the horrific realization of the trap they had just fallen into.
Someone had orchestrated this perfectly.
Someone wanted them ruined.
Megan’s manager stood waiting by the service elevator with a clipboard pressed against his chest.
His face was a mask of furious indignation.
He didn’t even let her explain the dizziness or the mysteriously unlocked door.
He fired her on the spot, his voice dripping with unrestrained contempt.
He demanded an exorbitant sum in retribution for tarnishing the hotel’s carefully curated image.
He claimed the scandal would cost them millions in canceled elite bookings.
Megan gathered her meager belongings from her battered metal locker.
The rusted door creaked loudly in the silent basement corridor.
Her hands shook so violently she dropped her plastic keychain twice.
She picked up her worn canvas tote bag, the fabric fraying at the edges.
Every single penny she had saved over the last five brutal years was meant for a specific purpose.
She planned to put a down payment on a small, run-down bakery located on the edge of town.
It was a humble dream, but it was hers.
It was her only escape route from a life of endless scrubbing and folding.
Now, she was facing a fabricated debt that would absolutely crush her single dream.
She walked out the employee exit, the cold evening wind biting through her thin jacket.
The city streets felt colder and more hostile than ever before.
She pulled her collar up against the chill, her mind racing with panic.
Tyler found her an hour later, huddled on a freezing concrete bench near the bus stop.
His sleek black town car idled quietly at the curb, a stark contrast to the gritty sidewalk.
The tinted windows rolled down silently.
He stepped out into the biting wind, adjusting the collar of his designer coat.
His expression was unreadable, completely devoid of the panic from earlier.
He didn’t offer empty apologies or patronizing comfort.
He sat down next to her on the freezing concrete.
He slid a thick, leather-bound folder across the rusted metal armrest.
Megan stared at the embossed logo on the cover, her chest tightening.
She didn’t reach for it immediately.
Tyler explained the brutal reality of his situation without wasting a single breath.
His corporate sponsors were threatening to pull their massive funding before the crucial championship qualifiers.
The media was painting him as a reckless partier, a liability to the sport.
He needed a believable, airtight cover story to kill the devastating escort rumors.
He pointed a long finger at the folder.
The paperwork inside was a legally binding marriage contract, valid for exactly six months.
In exchange for playing his devoted fiancee in public, his team would quietly handle her massive hotel retribution fees.
He leaned forward, resting his elbows on his knees.
His dark eyes locked onto hers, searching for any sign of hesitation.
He promised to buy the abandoned bakery she had been obsessing over since her childhood at the state orphanage.
He knew about the bakery.
His team had already done a thorough background check.
Megan flipped open the heavy cover, her eyes scanning the dense legal jargon.
The words blurred together on the crisp white paper.
It was a sterile business transaction, perfectly calculated to save his elite sporting career.
She thought about the peeling paint on the bakery’s front door.
She thought about the smell of fresh yeast she desperately missed.
She pulled a cheap plastic pen from her pocket and clicked it twice.
The sound echoed loudly over the rumble of the idling car.
She signed her name on the dotted line without looking up at his face.
She handed the folder back, her hand remarkably steady.
The deal was struck.
The transition into his elite world was brutal and physically exhausting.
Megan moved her two cardboard boxes into his sprawling penthouse apartment the very next morning.
The massive space was constructed entirely of glass and cold steel.
It felt more like a modern art museum than a place where people actually lived.
There were no personal photos, no clutter, no warmth.
Her cheap canvas sneakers squeaked against the pristine marble floors.
Tyler’s public relations team descended upon her like a swarm of hungry locusts.
They aggressively altered her wardrobe, pulling agonizingly tight dresses over her head.
They traded her faded denim for suffocating designer gowns and crippling high heels.
They spent grueling hours teaching her how to lean into Tyler’s shoulder naturally during invasive press conferences.
She practiced her smile in the mirror until her cheeks ached.
She mastered the difficult art of casting a bashful glance whenever reporters shouted questions about their sudden romance.
Tyler played his part flawlessly, wrapping a protective arm around her waist for the flashing cameras.
He deflected intrusive questions with practiced, charming ease.
Behind the heavy steel doors of the penthouse, however, they maintained a careful, deeply polite distance.
They barely spoke unless his PR manager was in the room.
He spent his entire days training relentlessly at the foundation’s elite equestrian center.
He pushed his horse, and himself, to the absolute breaking point.
Megan spent her quiet afternoons scrubbing the abandoned bakery he had purchased for her.
She threw herself into the physical labor.
She wiped years of accumulated grime from the cracked glass display cases.
She scrubbed the ancient industrial ovens until her knuckles bled and blistered.
The physical exhaustion kept her mind from spiraling into total panic.
It stopped her from thinking about the bizarre, highly public lie she was living.
She was a fake wife to a man she barely knew.
But she was also the owner of her dream bakery.
Slowly, the icy, professional barrier between them began to show microscopic cracks.
It started with small, silent gestures.
Tyler started bringing her fresh coffee in the early mornings before he left for the stables.
He never made a big deal out of it.
He simply left the steaming cup on the granite counter.
He remembered exactly how much raw sugar she liked, stirring it perfectly without asking.
Megan found herself lingering by the massive living room windows, waiting up for him after his late-night training sessions.
She watched the city lights flicker, listening for the sound of the elevator chime.
They began sharing quiet, improvised dinners over the cold kitchen island.
The silence between them gradually shifted from awkward to comfortable.
Tyler dropped his guarded media persona, letting his shoulders slump as he ate.
He looked younger, more vulnerable.
He admitted the crushing, suffocating pressure of the upcoming championships.
He talked about the heavy weight of his legacy and the ruthless expectations of the foundation.
Megan confessed the brutal realities of growing up in the overcrowded state foster system.
She talked about being constantly hungry, hiding crusts of stale bread under her thin mattress.
She described the cold nights and the indifferent caretakers.
Tyler listened with an intense, unwavering focus that made her chest ache strangely.
He never offered pity.
He never tried to fix her past.
He offered only a silent, steady respect that she had never experienced before.
They sat in the dim light of the kitchen, two lonely people finding a strange solace in a fake marriage.
One rainy evening, the conversation shifted toward the darkest corners of their childhoods.
The rain battered heavily against the floor-to-ceiling windows.
Tyler traced the rim of his ceramic mug, his gaze fixed on the dark city skyline.
He softly mentioned a young girl from his distant past.
He described a fellow orphan he used to protect from the older bullies.
He called her his very first real friend.
He spoke of a tiny girl who always saved him half of her meager rations.
He specifically noted she had a distinct, star-shaped birthmark on her left wrist.
He had been actively employing private investigators for years.
He was desperately hoping to fulfill a childhood promise to find her and protect her.
Megan’s heart slammed against her ribs with the force of a runaway freight train.
She recognized the heartbreaking story instantly.
She remembered the stale bread and the cold rain.
She was that terrified, skinny little girl.
The massive realization hit her so hard she physically gripped the edge of the granite counter.
Her knuckles turned white.
She desperately wanted to tell him the absolute truth right then and there.
She wanted to bridge the final, agonizing gap between them.
She wanted to collapse into his arms and tell him she was finally safe.
But she looked down at her left wrist.
The dark birthmark he remembered with such clarity was gone.
It had faded into a pale, barely visible scar after a severe boiling water accident years ago.
She rubbed the scarred skin, her throat tightening.
She opened her mouth to find the right words to explain the missing mark.
She needed him to believe her without the physical proof.
Before she could force a single syllable out, the heavy electronic penthouse doors chimed.
They swung open violently, letting in a gust of cold air.
Brenda marched into the pristine living room as if she held the deed to the entire building.
She was the spoiled, vindictive daughter of Craig, the equestrian foundation’s incredibly powerful president.
She wore a smug, entitled expression that made Megan’s stomach churn.
She had made it abundantly clear she despised Megan from the absolute second the engagement was announced.
She carelessly tossed a heavy, dripping umbrella onto the expensive hardwood floor.
The rainwater pooled on the pristine wood.
Tyler instantly stepped in front of Megan, his posture stiffening defensively at the sudden, aggressive intrusion.
He demanded to know how she had bypassed the lobby security.
Brenda didn’t even bother to acknowledge his protective stance.
She waved a manicured hand dismissively.
Her sharp, heavily lined eyes locked entirely onto Megan, gleaming with a victorious, toxic malice.
She announced loudly that she knew the highly publicized marriage was nothing but a calculated, desperate sham.
She stepped further into the room, her high heels clicking sharply.
She threatened to march straight to the hungry tabloids.
She promised to destroy Tyler’s entire career right before the crucial qualifiers.
Tyler took a menacing step forward, demanding she leave their private home immediately.
His voice was dangerously low, vibrating with restrained anger.
Brenda completely ignored his stern warning.
She took a slow, deliberate step closer to the kitchen island.
She proudly claimed she was the long-lost childhood friend Tyler had been spending a fortune trying to locate.
Megan’s breath caught painfully in her throat.
The room seemed to tilt slightly.
Brenda rolled up the sleeve of her expensive silk blouse with a theatrical, exaggerated flourish.
She proudly displayed the exact same jagged, star-shaped birthmark Megan had watched fade from her own wrist a decade ago.
It was perfectly dark, perfectly shaped.
Tyler brushed past Megan, his carefully maintained composure crumbling into raw shock.
He stared at the dark ink on Brenda’s skin as if he had seen a ghost.
He hesitantly reached out to trace the mark, his large fingers trembling slightly.
He whispered the name he had been searching for.
Megan clamped her jaw shut so hard her teeth ached.
She buried her hands deep in her apron pockets.
She desperately hid her own faded, useless scar from his view.
Brenda smiled sweetly up at Tyler, spinning a flawless web of rehearsed lies.
She talked about how much she had missed her beloved him.
She recited details that she must have stolen from the foundation’s private investigator reports.
Megan backed out of the kitchen quietly, her chest hollowing out.
She felt completely invisible.
She left them standing together in the center of the penthouse.
The ghost of her own past had been completely stolen by a stranger.
The following days rapidly devolved into a waking, suffocating nightmare of escalating sabotage.
The penthouse felt more like a prison than a sanctuary.
Tyler was visibly torn, his loyalty divided between his fake wife and the girl he believed was his childhood savior.
Craig leveraged his absolute authority as the foundation president to make Tyler’s professional life a living hell.
He summoned Tyler to his expansive corner office.
He dropped all pretenses of fair sportsmanship and neutral administration.
He demanded Tyler immediately drop out of the upcoming tournament.
He ordered him to abandon Megan and marry Brenda instead.
Craig viewed Tyler strictly as a highly profitable asset that needed to be tightly controlled within the family.
He wanted the champion strictly under his own roof.
Tyler firmly refused the demand, slamming his hands down on Craig’s mahogany desk.
He stormed out of the office, his jaw set in a hard line.
When Tyler walked out of the office, the real, vicious attacks began.
The foundation started enforcing obscure, ridiculous rules against his training team.
His preferred practice times were suddenly revoked.
During a highly publicized open practice session, Megan noticed a strange man lingering near the equipment benches.
The man wore a foundation jacket, but he looked completely out of place.
Someone had deliberately swapped Tyler’s heavily guarded pre-match water bottle.
Megan spotted a powdery residue clinging to the plastic threads of the cap.
She sprinted across the dirt arena, her boots sinking into the loose soil.
She barely managed to knock the heavy bottle from his hands before he took a long sip.
The water spilled harmlessly into the dirt.
The foundation’s supposedly random anti-doping officials swarmed his locker room mere moments later.
They demanded an immediate, supervised drug test right there on the spot.
They didn’t even wait for the practice session to end.
Tyler passed the aggressive screening, his sample perfectly clean.
The officials looked visibly disappointed as they packed up their equipment.
The sinister, unspoken warning vibrating through the locker room was clear.
Craig was entirely willing to destroy Tyler’s pristine legacy if he couldn’t control him.
He would frame him, ban him, and ruin him.
The attacks didn’t stop at merely trying to ruin his sporting reputation.
They escalated to physical threats.
On the tense evening before the most crucial qualifying match, Megan stayed late at the bakery.
She was aggressively scrubbing the floor, trying to distract herself from the looming disaster.
The dark alley behind the shop was completely deserted.
The streetlights flickered poorly, casting long, menacing shadows.
A hired thug stepped out from the deep shadows, grabbing her aggressively by the shoulders.
He shoved her hard against the brick wall.
Megan screamed, digging her heels into the slick pavement.
She fought back, kicking wildly at his shins.
Tyler, who had been waiting in his parked car down the street, abandoned his vehicle entirely.
He heard her scream and moved on pure instinct.
He sprinted across the slick asphalt, tackling the massive attacker cleanly around the waist.
They hit the ground hard, rolling over the wet concrete.
The thug swung a heavy metal pipe blindly during the violent scuffle.
Tyler took the brutal blow directly to his dominant riding arm.
The sickening crack echoed loudly in the narrow alley.
Tyler grunted in pain, rolling away from the impact.
The attacker scrambled away into the darkness, his heavy boots echoing down the street.
Tyler sat against the brick wall, gripping his rapidly swelling wrist.
His face was pale, his breathing ragged.
The foundation’s biased medical staff immediately declared him completely unfit to ride the next morning.
They cited safety regulations, refusing to clear him for the qualifiers.
Craig stood in the sterile, brightly lit clinic hallway.
A smug, victorious grin was plastered across his face.
He watched the nurses wrap Tyler’s fractured wrist through the observation window.
He offered Tyler a brutal, unyielding ultimatum right there in the hallway.
He pulled a stack of legal documents from his briefcase.
If Tyler signed the prepared annulment papers and publicly claimed Brenda as his fiancee, Craig would intervene.
He would grant him a special, highly irregular medical exemption.
The exemption would allow him to compete despite the severe injury, keeping his historic record alive.
Craig possessed the sole authority to override the medical staff.
If he stubbornly refused, the foundation would issue a permanent, career-ending ban.
Craig casually cited a newly fabricated doping violation.
He completely ignored the clean test results from earlier, claiming the lab had found irregularities.
Megan sat frozen beside Tyler’s narrow hospital bed.
She pressed a fresh ice pack gently against his swollen arm.
Tyler stared blankly at the beige wall, his jaw tight with repressed fury.
He had deliberately sacrificed everything to protect her in that alley.
He had risked his entire career to keep her safe.
Now his lifelong dream of sweeping the championships was slipping through his bruised fingers.
Megan knew the absolute truth about the orphanage and the desperate nights they spent surviving together.
She knew Brenda’s perfectly dark birthmark was a complete, calculated forgery.
But without her own physical mark to definitively prove her identity, her desperate words would sound like pathetic lies.
She would simply look like a jealous, fake wife clinging to a wealthy athlete in his darkest hour.
Dan, the young clinic doctor who had treated Tyler’s wrist, quietly entered the room to check the splint.
Dan had grown up in the exact same orphanage as Megan.
He was a quiet boy who had always looked out for her from afar.
He adjusted the tight bandages, his eyes darting nervously toward Craig standing in the doorway.
Dan knew the real truth about Megan’s identity.
He remembered the burn that had destroyed her birthmark.
But speaking up against the foundation president meant losing his hard-earned medical license.
He kept his head down, focused entirely on the bandages.
Megan looked at Tyler’s defeated posture.
She saw the exhaustion and the quiet devastation in his eyes.
She made a silent, terrifying decision.
She refused to let this corrupt family steal his entire future.
The morning of the final championship qualifier dawned with heavy, oppressive rain.
The massive outdoor stadium was packed with thousands of screaming fans.
Aggressive reporters swarmed the entrances, hungry for the scandal.
Craig stood triumphantly in the exclusive VIP lounge, holding a glass of expensive champagne.
He looked down at the muddy track with utter satisfaction.
Brenda clung tightly to his arm, wearing a custom designer dress.
She deliberately pulled her sleeve up, flashing her fake birthmark for the cameras.
She played the role of the devoted, worried fiancee perfectly.
Tyler sat in the sterile locker room below the stands.
His injured wrist was heavily taped, throbbing with dull pain.
He was fully prepared to walk out and formally forfeit the match.
He refused to sign Craig’s papers, choosing his integrity over his career.
Megan pushed through the heavy security doors of the VIP lounge.
Her wet hair was plastered to her forehead, her jacket dripping onto the expensive carpet.
She marched directly into the center of the crowded room.
She completely ignored the shocked gasps from the wealthy patrons.
She didn’t scream or throw a dramatic tantrum.
She walked straight up to Brenda, her posture radiating an absolute, chilling calm.
The room fell dead silent, the clinking of glasses stopping entirely.
Megan demanded Brenda repeat the specific lullaby they used to sing at the orphanage.
She asked for the melody they hummed when the bread ran out and the cold set in.
Brenda’s smug smile faltered instantly.
Her eyes darted nervously toward her father, seeking a rescue.
She stammered, claiming the traumatic childhood illness had erased those specific, trivial memories.
She tried to laugh it off, calling Megan desperate.
Megan didn’t flinch.
She pulled a folded, heavily worn piece of paper from her damp jacket pocket.
It was the official, heavily stamped medical report from a private investigator.
She had hired the investigator with every last cent of her bakery savings.
She calmly read the harsh results aloud for the entire quiet room to hear.
Her voice carried clearly over the ambient noise of the stadium.
The report definitively proved Brenda’s birthmark was a fake.
It was a fresh, incredibly detailed cosmetic tattoo.
The ink hadn’t even fully settled into the dermal layers of her skin.
The investigator had tracked down the exact luxury parlor where she had the procedure done.
Craig lunged forward aggressively, his face purple with rage.
He tried to snatch the damning paper from Megan’s hands.
Tyler, who had followed Megan up from the locker rooms, stepped firmly into his path.
He used his uninjured arm to shove the older man back against the catering table.
The heavy crystal champagne glasses shattered loudly against the marble floor.
The sharp sound echoed like a gunshot.
Dan stepped out from the growing crowd of wealthy onlookers.
His medical badge glinted in the harsh overhead light.
He loudly corroborated Megan’s story.
He formally confirmed she was the little girl from the orphanage, detailing the burn that took her mark.
He also publicly handed a thick, manila file to the league commissioners standing nearby.
The file contained irrefutable proof of Craig’s systematic corruption.
It included the bank transfers for the orchestrated doping setup.
It included the communication logs for the hired attack in the alley.
Dan had risked his entire career to pull the records from the clinic’s secure servers.
The fallout was absolute and wonderfully merciless.
League security officers quickly surrounded the table.
They escorted a screaming, furious Craig out of the VIP lounge in handcuffs.
He shouted threats that nobody listened to.
Brenda shrank back into the shadows, her fabricated identity entirely dismantled.
She covered her tattooed wrist, her face pale with humiliation.
The elite crowd turned their backs on her entirely.
The disciplinary committee held an emergency meeting right there in the stadium offices.
They immediately stripped Craig of his prestigious presidency.
They officially cleared Tyler of all fabricated charges.
They granted him full permission to ride in the final match, pending a medical sign-off.
Dan carefully adjusted the tight tape on Tyler’s fractured wrist one last time.
He nodded grimly, signing the official medical clearance forms.
Tyler walked out into the pouring rain.
He mounted his massive horse, ignoring the sharp, blinding pain radiating up his arm.
He gripped the reins, his focus absolute.
He rode with a fierce, reckless brilliance that left the entire stadium breathless.
He navigated the treacherous, muddy jumps with flawless precision.
He didn’t just win the crucial qualifier; he absolutely shattered the all-time season record.
The crowd erupted into deafening cheers as he crossed the final finish line.
The rain mixed with the mud kicking up from the hooves.
Megan stood by the wooden paddock fence, gripping the wet timber.
Tears streamed hot and fast down her cold face.
Tyler slid off the saddle, handing the reins to his stunned trainer.
His chest heaved as he walked directly toward her through the mud.
He didn’t care about the hundreds of cameras flashing wildly around them.
He didn’t care about the reporters shouting his name.
He reached through the wooden rails, pressing his sweaty forehead gently against hers.
He closed his eyes, breathing in the scent of rain and vanilla.
He formally apologized for ever doubting the faded scar on her wrist.
He promised he would never let her fight alone again.
The crowd cheered louder, the sound echoing across the massive grounds.
Six months later, the heavy scent of fresh yeast and warm cinnamon filled the morning air.
Megan stood behind the polished glass counter of her beautifully restored bakery.
The peeling paint was gone, replaced by a warm, inviting blue.
The morning sun streamed through the large, newly replaced front windows.
The brass bell above the door chimed merrily.
Tyler walked through the jingling front door.
He wore a simple t-shirt instead of his usual stiff riding gear.
He looked relaxed, the heavy burden of the championships finally lifted from his shoulders.
He leaned over the wooden counter, completely ignoring the tray of fresh pastries.
He pulled a small, velvet box from his pocket.
He set it gently next to the old brass cash register.
He didn’t make a grand, theatrical speech.
He simply asked her if she was ready to tear up their fake contract.
He asked if she was ready to start a real one, built on absolute truth.
Megan wiped flour from her cheek with the back of her wrist.
The motion revealed the pale, faded star scar that had started it all.
She looked at the small box, then up into his dark, smiling eyes.
She smiled, reaching across the counter.
She pulled him into a deep, flour-dusted kiss.
THE END
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