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A woman walking quickly in a wedding dress | Source: Midjourney
Jake took my hands, and we said our vows alone at the altar, with everyone finally focused on where they should have been all along.
A couple getting married | Source: Midjourney
Later that night, we curled up on the couch in our hotel suite, and I asked the question that had been bugging me since the wedding
“How did you know?” I asked. “And why didn’t you prevent this?”
He pulled me closer. “I’ll explain everything.”
A couple cuddling on a sofa | Source: Pexels
“Remember how Mom asked me to fix her laptop a few days ago? While I was busy, I accidentally saw the open browser tab. She’d been searching how to alter a wedding dress quickly. And had uploaded a photo of your dress.”
He let out a sigh. “I realized then that she was up to something.”
A thoughtful man | Source: Midjourney
His mother hasn’t said a word to us since.
A couple relaxing together | Source: Pexels
Not a text, not a call, not even a passive-aggressive comment on social media. The silence should feel strange, but instead, it feels peaceful.
I sleep easier now.
Trust is a strange thing: delicate as lace, as hard-won as those pearl buttons I’d dreamed about since I was 12.
A couple walking on a beach together | Source: Pexels
But that day, in front of everyone who mattered to us, Jake proved something more than love.
