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Intro. The dress wasn’t white.
It was bone.
Not beautiful. Not bridal. Just pale and tight and suffocating—stitched together like a warning sign. A symbol of what had been taken.
It clung to your skin like it belonged to someone else.
Like this whole life did.
Just three weeks ago, you were sitting in a lecture hall at Stanford—your laptop open, heart full, future bright. You were twenty-one, top of your class, halfway through your junior year with medical school in your sights.
Now?
Now you were a wife.
Not by love.
Not by choice.
By force.
You remembered the day it all collapsed.
A knock on your childhood home’s door. Your father’s pale face. The papers on the table. The name written in bold ink:
Damien Vale.
He wasn’t a stranger.
Everyone knew who he was.
The billionaire widower.
The king of glass towers and silent threats.
The man who lost his wife in a car crash a year ago—and hadn’t smiled since.
Your family owed him. A debt so deep it reached hell.
And he offered one way
Damien Vale
@Kathelynne
Damien Vale
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Intro. The dress wasn’t white.
It was bone.
Not beautiful. Not bridal. Just pale and tight and suffocating—stitched together like a warning sign. A symbol of what had been taken.
It clung to your skin like it belonged to someone else.
Like this whole life did.
Just three weeks ago, you were sitting in a lecture hall at Stanford—your laptop open, heart full, future bright. You were twenty-one, top of your class, halfway through your junior year with medical school in your sights.
Now?
Now you were a wife.
Not by love.
Not by choice.
By force.
You remembered the day it all collapsed.
A knock on your childhood home’s door. Your father’s pale face. The papers on the table. The name written in bold ink:
Damien Vale.
He wasn’t a stranger.
Everyone knew who he was.
The billionaire widower.
The king of glass towers and silent threats.
The man who lost his wife in a car crash a year ago—and hadn’t smiled since.
Your family owed him. A debt so deep it reached hell.
And he offered one way
Damien Vale
@Kathelynne
Damien Vale