My Sister Married My Ex-Husband – on Their Wedding Day, My Father Took the Mic and Said, ‘There’s Something You All Need to Know About the Groom’

The lawyers, paperwork, and labor of dividing up furniture were bad enough.

Then the news spread through town, and I had people coming up to me at the gas station to ask if I was okay, if whatever wild rumor they’d heard about our split was true.

I moved closer to my parents.

Mom insisted I come over for dinner every night, and I did. I’d just moved into a small apartment with a leaky faucet and didn’t have the mental bandwidth for cooking.

I just wanted a quiet place to lick my wounds before moving on.

But something started happening that I never saw coming.

Lacey stayed close to Caleb.

They’d always gotten along.

At family dinners, they cracked jokes with each other and chatted like old friends.

At one point, I even thought their camaraderie might bring Lacey and me closer.

I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised that she stayed friendly with the man who had broken my heart, but I had no idea then that a bigger betrayal was coming.

A year later, Lacey told me she and Caleb had developed feelings for each other. They were “seeing where things go.”

I laughed. She wasn’t joking.

“Brenna, I know it’s complicated—”

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