He Married Her On The Day We Were Supposed To Wed Chapter 09

He Married Her On The Day We Were Supposed To Wed Chapter 09

The officers showed Ryan the evidence they had gathered and the warrants authorizing the arrests.

Trembling violently, Ryan stared at the disheveled Lila with shock and fury.

She had deceived him.

Elise had not been lying. Lila had.

Mrs. Carter really was dead, and Lila and Megan had caused her death together.

They had even stolen her body, then played the victims and pinned everything on Elise.

How desperate must Elise have felt when he refused to believe her?

He was a bastard.

He had failed her completely.

The officers led Lila and Megan away.

As they passed me, Megan, who had always cared so much about her appearance, was sobbing hard

enough to smear her makeup.

“Elise, I’m sorry.”

“You genuinely treated me like a friend, but I was always secretly competing with you because of

my own vanity. I sided with an outsider against you, helped her hurt you, and even caused the death

of Mrs. Carter, who had always been so kind to me. I’m sorry.”

I watched coldly as the officers took them away in handcuffs.

What good was an apology now?

My mother was already gone.

Megan only regretted what she had done because she knew she was going to prison.

She had never deserved my friendship.

The sirens gradually faded into the distance.

I glanced around the wreckage of the wedding and turned to leave.

The police had recovered my mother’s remains.

I needed to bring her home.

The old family house had fallen into disrepair, but after I cleaned it from top to bottom, it felt bright and alive again.

I quit my job in New York City and accepted a full-time teaching position at Cedar Ridge Elementary

School.

I stayed for one reason only. This place still carried traces of my mother, and being there gave me

peace.

Sometime later, I heard some news about Ryan, though I could no longer remember who had told

After a funding round collapsed, his company spiraled into crisis and eventually went bankrupt.

He sold everything he could, but it still was not enough to cover the losses.

The man who had once been surrounded by admirers became someone everyone in his social circle avoided like the plague.

His friends, his closest buddies, and even his own sister stood by and watched him fall.

Not one of them was willing to lend him money.

With no other options left, Ryan began collecting cans and scrap metal to sell, putting every dollar

toward his debts.

Maybe, if he kept at it long enough, he would pay them off someday.

As for Lila and Megan, Lila received twenty years in prison, while Megan got fifteen.

By the time they were released, they would both be well into middle age.

While I was lost in thought, a few little troublemakers in my class began sneaking snacks under their desks again.

I shot them a sharp look and confiscated every bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and fruit snacks.

“Come to my office after class!”

[The End]