The Forgotten Bride by Marquita Valentine

Author:Marquita Valentine [Valentine, Marquita]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance, Fiction
Publisher: Valentine Publishing, LLC
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

It was all Luke could do to keep it together. He had to because Lily looked ready to bolt at any moment. Honesty was fucking overrated, but he had listened to Dr. Jeon, bowing to her expert advice.

Better for her to find out from you than anyone else. Better to find out now instead of later.

“Baby, just listen, okay?”

Tears fell from her eyes. “Why did you divorce me?” she asked, sounding so pitiful that he felt like the world’s biggest bastard.

“You divorced me.”

She shook her head so hard that he heard her teeth rattle. “I didn’t. I would never do that. I know we fought a lot, but not enough for me to leave you.”

Fuck his life. “That’s because I left you.”

“Why?”

“Because I got an offer I couldn’t refuse and you didn’t see it that way.”

“I don’t understand. You’re not making any sense. Why would I care about an offer you couldn’t refuse?”

“Because it meant that you had to give up your dreams.”

“Oh.” Her brows furrowed. “But I thought we were waiting until you were done with medical school before I tried to land a gig on Broadway.”

He hesitated at first, but there was no way around it. “You found a way for us to have both. So, I transferred schools.”

“I did?” Her eyes widened. “But that had to have cost a fortune. You had a scholarship to Carolina.”

“I did, but we were having problems. Big problems. I thought moving would make things better, but then I started to resent you, the hours I had to put in, the extra jobs I took. Don’t get me wrong, you worked, too. But it was fucking expensive living there. Sometimes, we had to pick between eating three meals a day and paying the electric bill.”

“Then what happened?”

“I got an offer to do a reality television show about up-and-coming doctors in Miami. They agreed to pay for my schooling, give me a huge paycheck…all for pretending to be a plastic surgeon. I did some fancy stitching. They would cut away to the real doctor’s hands and body during the actual procedure, careful to avoid showing his face. Back then, social media wasn’t like it was today. Google was still a search engine.”

“It’s not now?”

“Yes and no,” he said, canting his head from side to side. “You have a Gmail account with them, and they sell music, movies, and e-books.”

“No more Hotmail?”

“Not really.”

She stared at him for a moment. “Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are still a couple?”

“No.”

“I can still rent movies from Blockbuster?”

“Netflix streams it right to your television.”

“What about your family?” she asked.

“Everyone’s married but Logan and me. However, he plans to ask Corinne to marry him.”

“Ugh.” She made a face. “I do remember her.”

“Well, she hasn’t changed.” Unfortunately.

“Yay. The one person I know is one of the people I’d love to forget.” She glanced around the room, as if seeking help, but there was no one. For all intents and purposes, he was the only family she had.

“Let’s get you home, and we can finish discussing everything.

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