I Married the Man Who Bullied Me in High School Because He Swore He’d Changed – but on Our Wedding Night, He Said, “Finally… I’m Ready to Tell You the Truth”

I was alone, but for once, I didn’t feel lonely.

Instead, I felt… suspended.

Behind me, there was a soft knock on the bedroom door.

“Tara?” Jess called.

“You’re good, girl?”

Yeah, I’m just… breathing,” I called back. “Taking it all in, you know?”

There was a pause. I could almost see Jess, my best friend since college, leaning against the door with her eyebrows furrowed as she decided whether to come in or not.

I smiled, though it didn’t quite reach my eyes in the mirror.

I heard Jess’s soft footsteps down the hall.

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