"Contact all your friends and family right away. Tell them the wedding is off. Say you changed your mind at the last minute and decided you didn't want to marry me."
I nodded, calm.
"Fine."
I went to the hospital to get my wound bandaged, then headed straight back to Delgado Corp to wrap up my work.
Back at the office, I posted on social media that the wedding was canceled.
The well-meaning advice came almost immediately:
"Girl, are you crazy? He's about to be the CEO of a publicly traded company! You stuck it out this long, and now you're throwing it away right before the payoff? Why?"
"A catch like that, and women are lining up to throw themselves at him. And here you are, handing him over on a silver platter!"
I didn't reply.
Soon enough, he wouldn't be any of those things.
I was sorting through files when a friend request from Vivian popped up on my phone.
The moment I accepted, a photo of a marriage certificate came through.
"Someone really does love me to death! After that little scene today, he took me straight to get our certificate just to make me feel better!"
In the photo, the two of them were beaming, faces pressed together. It burned behind my eyes like staring into the sun.