On Our Wedding Night, She Told Me My Husband Will Betray Chapter 01

On Our Wedding Night, She Told Me My Husband Will Betray Chapter 01

The night I got engaged to Ethan Shaw, a ghost showed up out of nowhere.

“No way I’m letting this happen. Dump him. Now.”

I acted like I couldn’t see her. She floated straight into my face anyway.

“After you two get married, he’s going to harvest your kidney for his precious ex, sell off your daughter, drain your parents dry, and leave you dead at the bottom of a building!.”

My whole body went rigid. “Am I really that hard to kill? Who even are you?”

She tapped her chin, tilted her head up with a little smirk.

“I’m your mommy!”

“Ellie, listen to Mom. This man is a walking disaster. Don’t walk into it. I’ll set you up with someone so much better.”

But Ethan had saved my life. And with the Shaw family in freefall, a Shaw-Bennett alliance was the only move that made sense.

***

My eyes drifted to Ethan across the room.

“Just trust me, baby… Mom would never hurt you.”

The little ghost sat at my side. Another girl sat at Ethan’s.

This was our engagement night, and his mouth was practically pressed to her cheek.

Whatever this was, it wasn’t nothing.

Lily Baxter was the bar’s new bottle girl. Flat broke, perpetually wide-eyed, the kind of girl who collects sympathy like currency.

She’d spilled a drink all over Ethan, soaking the suit I’d had custom-made for him.

She threw herself against his chest to dab at it. “Sir, I’m so sorry. I can pay for dry cleaning, I promise.”

I’d been ready to wave it off.

Ethan gave a cold laugh. “Dry cleaning doesn’t cut it. Write me an IOU. You’re working off every penny.”

And just like that, she was in his orbit.

Every time he came to this bar after that, he made sure she was the one serving him.

He kept her covered, used his name to protect her.

His explanation to me was always the same: “Just helping her pay me back faster. That’s all.”

When he sent me designer bags, his assistant dropped one off for her too.

When a drunk customer got rough with her, Ethan personally went and handled it.

His friends started whispering. Was something going on there?

Ethan laughed it off every time and pulled me closer. “Don’t be ridiculous. She’s just staff. The only woman I’m marrying is Ellie.”

“Ellie! Lily poured that for you. Drink up.”

He flicked a peanut at me and hit me square in the forehead. I caught a glimpse of him and Lily pressed close together.

He cleared his throat. “Are you jealous? I’ll come sit next to you. Happy?”

I took the glass from his hand. The little ghost opened her mouth again.

“See that? You hate drinking and he doesn’t even care. He doesn’t think about you at all.”

Does he?

I looked up and caught Ethan’s eye. He was smiling at me, warm and steady, just for me.

“Come on. Cheers.”

The way he looked at me was focused. Real.

And yet the ghost beside me kept saying he felt nothing.