Eight months after the divorce, my phone buzzed with his name. “Come to my wedding,” he said, smug as ever. “She’s pregnant—unlike you.”

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Adrian lunged toward me, but Daniel stepped between us immediately.

“Careful,” Daniel warned. “There are cameras everywhere.”

Adrian stopped moving. For the first time in his life, he understood the room no longer belonged to him.

The wedding videographer still held up his camera. Every guest had a phone raised. Every whisper had already become testimony.

Celeste hissed sharply, “Adrian, tell them.”

He stared at her silently.