The Final Screenshot Proved Dominic Had Been Planning to Humiliate Me at My Own Wedding
The last screenshot was from a group chat Dominic thought I would never see. Weeks earlier, he had arranged for Cassidy to appear at our reception wearing the dress he bought her. His friends planned to announce her as the “original Mrs. Ashworth,” project old photographs of them onto the ballroom screens, and film my reaction for social media. Dominic’s message underneath made everything worse: “Elena will be furious, but she’ll stay. She always stays.” The invitation stunt had never been one spontaneous joke. It was another test of how much humiliation I would tolerate before finally choosing myself.
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