A Wedding Funeral Prelude

I spent ninety-nine weddings waiting for Matteo Lombardi to choose me, only to be abandoned for his childhood sweetheart’s fake crises every time. On our hundredth wedding day, while I was being tortured on a dark web livestream for a one-dollar ransom, my fiancé finally gave her his vows instead of saving my life. He thought I was just another girl crying wolf; he didn’t realize he was leaving me to the dogs—literally. Now, the pampered Moretti princess is dead, replaced by a survivor who found her strength in the wreckage and her heart in the arms of the rival who actually came to my rescue. Matteo is begging for a forgiveness that died in that warehouse, but I’m no longer the girl waiting at the altar—I’m the woman watching him burn.