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00:00The bouquet sailed out of a girl's hands, bounced once, and landed in mine.
00:04Every eye in the room turned to Ethan.
00:07Eight years.
00:08We'd been together eight years.
00:11The bouquet goes to her, she's gotta be next!
00:13Someone pushed Ethan toward me.
00:15I felt the heat rise in my face, waiting, waiting for the words,
00:19I'll marry you.
00:20Instead, he calmly slipped the bouquet out of my hands,
00:24turned, handed it to Sophie, the bridesmaid standing next to him.
00:28She caught it first.
00:30Come on, we'll get the next one.
00:32The spotlight followed the flowers away from me.
00:35I watched Sophie's face go bright with pleased surprise.
00:38I smiled, thin and small.
00:41Ethan didn't know.
00:42There was no next one.
00:43My wedding was next week.
00:45Lily's face went dark in an instant.
00:47I grabbed her arm before she could swing.
00:49She turned back, eyes redder than mine.
00:52That woman did it on purpose.
00:54I every something, I told every single bridesmaid,
00:57this bouquet was yours.
01:02Lily, the celebration isn't over.
01:04The crowd had already moved on.
01:06Everyone was watching Sophie now, the way she cradled those flowers,
01:10and let her gaze drift toward Ethan, soft and deliberate.
01:14Ethan had already eased back to the edge of the room, like nothing happened.
01:18The emcee was good.
01:20A few quick jokes, and the room came back to life.
01:23Lily turned away, jaw tight.
01:25The ceremony continued.
01:26I sat at Lily's family table for the reception,
01:29accepted the looks from every direction.
01:32The sympathetic ones, the curious ones.
01:34Ethan was across the room, laughing at his friends.
01:38Sophie sat close enough to him that it stopped looking like a professional arrangement a long time ago.
01:43She hadn't been a bridesmaid originally.
01:45A groomsman was added last minute, so they pulled her in.
01:48Ethan brought her to events often.
01:50She said it was good for her development,
01:52even here, to my best friend's wedding.
01:54When Lily and her new husband came around to toast our table,
01:58she pulled me into a tight hug.
01:59That woman has been angling toward Ethan for six months.
02:02I had someone look into her.
02:04She's good at what she does.
02:06Ethan, you're the most beautiful bride in this room today.
02:09Don't say another word.
02:11She made a sound in her throat.
02:13Let it go.
02:14By the time the last guests were drifting out,
02:17Ethan walked over, unhurried.
02:19Ready to go?
02:20You've been drinking.
02:21I'll call a designated driving service.
02:23Sure. Fine.
02:25The car moved through the dark city.
02:27My face floated back at me from the window.
02:29Makeup still perfect.
02:31Eyes worn down to the bone.
02:33She did get to it first.
02:34Sophie, she's young.
02:36Probably just excited to be there.
02:37Give it back to her, and don't read too much into it.
02:40I didn't answer.
02:41Watch the neon blur past.
02:43He waited, then finally looked up from his phone.
02:46You're upset.
02:47Didn't we say we'd get the next one?
02:49Our wedding is going to be better than Lily's.
02:51You can have as many bouquets as you want, okay?
02:54Something sour spread through my chest.
02:56It was always like this.
02:57A warm voice.
02:59A vague promise that floated somewhere in the future.
03:02And then, the automatic assumption that the whole thing was settled.
03:06Ethan, Lily and I made a promise when we were kids.
03:09Yeah?
03:11Whoever got married first, the other one had to follow within a week.
03:15We'd wear each other's bridesmaid dresses.
03:17We'd be the first to see each other be happy.
03:19The car went quiet.
03:21You're still taking that seriously?
03:23Things change.
03:25Venues, schedules, everything needs at least six months to a year of planning.
03:30We'll do it right.
03:32The perfect wedding.
03:34No need to rush.
03:35He didn't explain why he couldn't bring himself to say he'd marry me.
03:39Just skipped straight to how the wedding would be planned.
03:42I thought about a month before this.
03:44Lily pulling me into her fitting room.
03:46Her face lit up.
03:47The bridesmaid dress she'd made herself.
03:49When I put it on, her eyes went bright.
03:52And then immediately wet.
03:53You look incredible in this.
03:54I made this for you.
03:56When it's your turn, I'll make you something even better.
03:59Ethan had been there too.
04:00Head down.
04:01Answering work messages.
04:02He glanced up when she said it.
04:04Smiled briefly.
04:05Looks good.
04:06Then looked back at his phone.
04:08I'd felt it then.
04:09Alongside the happiness for Lily, something cold and quiet underneath it.
04:14Eight years that had gone nowhere.
04:16The car pulled into the complex and stopped.
04:18Ethan undid his seatbelt.
04:20Seemed to decide that the car ride had closed the matter.
04:23Leaned in for a kiss.
04:24I put my hand flat against his shoulder.
04:27I'm tired, Ethan.
04:28He looked at me.
04:29Quiet for a few seconds.
04:31Then he patted my shoulder.
04:32Being a bridesmaid is exhausting.
04:34Get some rest.
04:39Sophie couldn't get a ride.
04:40I'm gonna go pick her up.
04:41She shouldn't be alone that late.
04:44Sure.
04:45He didn't move right away.
04:47I think he was waiting.
04:48For me to tell him to be careful.
04:50For me to say, with some edge in my voice.
04:53This late, I opened the car door.
04:55Got out.
04:56The rideshare eased away.
04:57I closed the front door behind me and sat down on the couch and stayed there.
05:02Eventually, I got up and walked to the bedroom.
05:05I stopped at the spare room.
05:07The one we'd set aside when we bought the apartment four years ago.
05:10There was never a child.
05:12Now there were just boxes.
05:13I went in.
05:15Pulled a thick bundle out from under the blanket in the old crib.
05:18Letters in his handwriting.
05:20Movie stubs.
05:21Amusement park tickets.
05:22Polaroids from trips.
05:24The one at the bottom was from college graduation.
05:26He had me on his back under the cherry trees.
05:29My hair and the petals were blowing together.
05:32On the back, in his big, uneven scrawl.
05:35I'll carry you forever.
05:36That's a promise.
05:37Cold.
05:38Like a joke with no punchline.
05:40Downstairs, I heard a car come into the parking garage.
05:43I went still and listened.
05:45Key in the lock.
05:46Footsteps going quiet on purpose.
05:49The door opened.
05:50You're still up?
05:52Yeah.
05:53What are you doing with all of that?
05:54Getting nostalgic?
05:56I didn't answer.
05:58Did she get home okay?
06:00Yeah.
06:01She's pretty far out.
06:02It really is hard to get a ride there.
06:04Okay.
06:06It's late.
06:07Come to bed.
06:07He reached out to pull me up.
06:09I didn't take his hand.
06:10My legs had gone numb.
06:12Ethan.
06:13Yeah?
06:15I think we should break up.
06:18Still thinking about the bouquet?
06:19Don't be like this.
06:21Fine.
06:21I'll order you something bigger tomorrow.
06:23Come on.
06:24I have an early meeting.
06:26I'm getting married.
06:30Within the week.
06:32His hand stopped on the bathroom door handle.
06:34A few seconds went by.
06:35Whatever was left of his patient expression dropped all the way off.
06:40Hana.
06:41Stop it.
06:42Marriage is a serious thing.
06:44It's not something you threaten because you're upset.
06:45May 28th.
06:46The hotel's booked.
06:48The dress is chosen.
06:50He laughed short and cold.
06:53Did Lily fill your head with this?
06:55She did her flash marriage and now she thinks everyone should be just as impulsive?
06:59Hana.
06:59Think clearly.
07:01Don't let her drag you into something you'll regret.
07:03After everything we've been through together...
07:05The invitations go to print tomorrow.
07:09You think this is going to change anything?
07:11This just makes you look immature?
07:13Irrational.
07:14I'm at a critical point in my career right now.
07:17A wedding is a distraction.
07:19It would wreck every plan I have.
07:21Is this really that desperate for you?
07:23A ring?
07:24The words hit like stones.
07:26Once, this tone of his would have undone me.
07:29Made me apologize.
07:31Backpedal.
07:31Soften.
07:32Now there was nothing in me except quiet.
07:35His attention was an expensive thing.
07:37It went to his projects.
07:38It went to his capable secretary.
07:41Late night check-ins.
07:42Birthday surprises.
07:43That time they both happened to stay an extra half day at a hotel during a work trip.
07:48What was left for me, after all that, wasn't much.
07:52I held his gaze and nodded.
07:53Yeah.
07:56All my friends are married.
08:00I want to be too.
08:02I walked into the bedroom and shut the door.
08:04On the nightstand was a bridal magazine.
08:06Six months old.
08:07Cover headline.
08:08The perfect three-month countdown.
08:10What every bride needs to know.
08:12I'd bought it once.
08:14Excited.
08:14Flipped a few pages.
08:16No rush.
08:17And I'd set it down and never picked it up again.
08:20In the dark, I stared at the ceiling.
08:22My phone buzzed.
08:23The screen lit up.
08:24Lily, you asleep?
08:26My chest is tight just thinking about it.
08:28That woman's face makes me so angry.
08:31What is Ethan's deal?
08:32What was his deal?
08:33There wasn't a deal.
08:34It was just this.
08:36Not every wait ends with the flowers blooming.
08:38We said within a week, remember?
08:40Your guy is worse than a block of wood.
08:42Bouquet lands in your hands and he still can't read the room?
08:45Eight years, not eight months.
08:48Fine.
08:48This once, I'll let you off the hook.
08:50My fingers paused.
08:52Then I typed back.
08:53When have I ever broken a promise to you?
08:56Ethan moved into the studio near his office.
08:59The wedding plan had suffocated him, I think.
09:01He needed air.
09:02Fine.
09:03So did I.
09:03I quietly took care of everything.
09:05I listed the apartment on Zillow.
09:07The afternoon I handed the keys to the realtor, I was still inside, packing up odds and ends.
09:13Found a folder of work documents tucked inside an old magazine.
09:16Ethan's, from a project he'd been running.
09:18I thought about it for a minute, then decided to bring it to him.
09:22The studio door was closed when I got there.
09:24Voices inside.
09:25More than one.
09:26I raised my hand to knock.
09:27A familiar voice floated out, soft and put upon.
09:31Sophie.
09:32Mr. Quinn, I feel terrible about it.
09:35I'd never caught a bouquet before.
09:36I panicked.
09:37Now the whole office chat is going crazy.
09:40People keep asking me privately if you and I are,
09:42you really need to say something in the group chat.
09:45I can't face anyone.
09:48Sophie, be honest.
09:49Do you actually want him to deny it?
09:51Or are you hoping he says something a little different?
09:54Sophie made a show of being scandalized.
09:56Stop it.
09:58Leave her alone.
10:00It'll blow over.
10:01People forget.
10:03It'll blow over.
10:04That tripped something in my memory.
10:06We'd been at his office once.
10:08He'd forgotten himself for a second and put his arm around me.
10:11A co-worker saw.
10:12That same afternoon, he made a calm statement in the company group chat.
10:16Please don't read into things.
10:18Stay focused on work.
10:19I'd understood then.
10:20He wanted to keep it clean, so I stopped coming by.
10:23The sensor light in the hallway had gone out without me noticing.
10:27It was dark.
10:28I understood something now that I hadn't understood then.
10:31What he'd minded wasn't the idea of an office relationship.
10:34What he'd minded was being seen with me.
10:36Someone who didn't do anything useful for his career.
10:38So, Ethan, what did you do about Hannah?
10:41I actually got her invitation this morning, which, I mean, that was out of nowhere.
10:46A short silence.
10:47Let her do what she wants.
10:49It's one thing to let small stuff go.
10:51But this time she needs to understand that a stunt like this doesn't work.
10:55Once this blows over, I'll make sure she understands who she shouldn't be listening to.
11:00He meant Lily.
11:02He decided Lily was the problem.
11:04A bad influence.
11:05Someone to cut out.
11:07So, you're really planning to be a no-she at your own wedding?
11:10Ethan said nothing, which was the same as yes.
11:13Come on, man.
11:14You and Hannah have been together this long.
11:17We've been waiting forever for your wedding.
11:21You really gonna let it come to this?
11:24You're not actually thinking about someone else, are you?
11:29Like, say, Sophie?
11:31Sophie stretched out her protest into something long and sweet.
11:35Ethan knows what he wants.
11:38She said the last few words slowly, like they meant more than they said.
11:42Ethan didn't answer.
11:43A low laugh went around the room.
11:45Someone else added, easy and agreeable.
11:48Honestly, Ethan, you've been more patient than most guys would be.
11:51Eight years.
11:52Anyone else would have checked out ages ago.
11:54What does Hannah actually bring to the table, besides arguments?
11:58Sophie's smart.
11:59She gets things done.
12:00She's actually useful when it counts, when it's Fayette.
12:04Stop it.
12:05You're terrible.
12:06The hallway sensor light stayed off.
12:08I set the folder down quietly on the floor,
12:11nudged it under the gap at the bottom of the door with my toe.
12:14Then I turned around and walked away.
12:16Ethan opened his phone again.
12:18The last message in his thread with Hannah
12:20was still the one he'd sent her.
12:22Think it over.
12:23I'll come back when you're ready.
12:24Something felt off.
12:26He knew how she worked.
12:27Even in a cold war,
12:29her silences always had a shape to them.
12:31A particular texture designed to pull his attention back.
12:35But he'd been in that studio for five full days,
12:37and she hadn't posted a single thing.
12:40No Instagram stories.
12:42Nothing.
12:43Ethan.
12:45Lily posted a caristel.
12:47Hannah's bridal photos.
12:48Man.
12:49Ethan looked.
12:50Nine photos.
12:51Lily's account, which he'd been blocked from for years.
12:54He was seeing this through someone else's screen.
12:57The center photo.
12:58Hannah in a wedding dress.
13:00Standing in front of a floor-to-ceiling window,
13:02like it had been arranged just for her.
13:04Her mouth had the faintest curve.
13:07Beautiful.
13:07A kind of beautiful he hadn't seen on her in a long time.
13:11All the anxiety washed out of it.
13:13Calm that had settled into the bone.
13:15The comments were piling up underneath.
13:18Hannah looks absolutely stunning.
13:20Lucky guy, Ethan.
13:21Finally.
13:22We've been waiting forever.
13:23Lily kept him blocked.
13:25He couldn't see any of this directly.
13:27He was reading it secondhand,
13:28on someone else's screen.
13:30A dull flare of irritation moved through him.
13:33She was really doing this?
13:36This openly?
13:37Look at her go.
13:39Let her.
13:40I won't show up.
13:41I want to see how she plans to put on a whole wedding by herself.
13:47Come on, man.
13:49You don't have to be like this.
13:51There are things you can't let slide.
13:52Ethan cut him off.
13:54Especially when someone's been pouring poison in her ear.
13:56He said, leaving the implication to hang.
13:59When this is done,
14:00I'll make sure she put some distance between herself and that influence.
14:04He'd filed Lily under threat months ago.
14:07Liability.
14:07To be dealt with after.
14:12May 28th.
14:13The day after the photo carousel posted.
14:15Ethan was up early.
14:16Her parents had been over for dinner back in January.
14:19Her father had mentioned a few times.
14:21Late May is the last good date on the calendar this year.
14:25After that, you'd have to wait until next spring.
14:27Ethan had smiled and refilled the man's glass.
14:31No rush.
14:32We have time.
14:33He hadn't thought she'd actually done the math on that.
14:36His phone had been going since morning.
14:42Relax.
14:43Let her wait.
14:44He let himself picture it.
14:46Hannah in the dress.
14:47In whatever venue she'd booked.
14:49Watching the clock.
14:50Hopeful and anxious.
14:51Wondering when he'd walk in.
14:52The satisfaction of it felt clean.
14:54She needed to know what it actually felt like to be left guessing.
14:58Then she'd stop.
14:59Then, someone dropped a screenshot in the group.
15:01Lily had posted again.
15:03A bedroom.
15:03Balloons and confetti in a heart pattern.
15:06Rose petals across the white bedding.
15:09The group went up in flames.
15:14Oh my god, she actually did it.
15:16Ethan, I can't watch this.
15:17You have to go be a man about it.
15:19Don't let this blow up.
15:19A dress, we're coming with you.
15:20The light from his phone screen lit his face.
15:23His fingers tightened a little.
15:26Every detail in the room was waiting for someone to walk through the door.
15:30He imagined himself doing it.
15:31The noise of the room.
15:32Her face when she saw him.
15:34He turned toward the closet.
15:36The custom suit was hanging where he could see it.
15:38Tie, cufflinks, shoes.
15:40All of it.
15:41He'd told his assistant to put it together a week ago.
15:44Without quite knowing why.
15:46Now his friends were loud in his ear.
15:48And the thing in his chest.
15:49That had been pulled taut.
15:51Started to give.
15:52Fine, fine, I heard you.
15:53Give me five minutes.
15:55He was already moving toward the closet.
15:58Faster than usual.
15:59Without noticing.
16:00He was buttoning the last button on his shirt.
16:02Reaching for the suit jacket.
16:04When his phone rang.
16:05One of the guys who'd gone ahead to scout.
16:09Ethan.
16:10Why did you and Hana sell the apartment?
16:12What do you mean, sell?
16:13The place you two lived.
16:14The doorman says it transferred to a new owner.
16:16A few days ago.
16:18Transferred.
16:19Your apartment.
16:20Hana's apartment.
16:21The doorman has no idea where she went.
16:23I asked and he said she genuinely doesn't know.
16:26Do you two move and not tell anyone?
16:28Because I'm standing here right now and I have no idea where we're supposed to be picking her up.
16:31Something detonated quietly in the center of Ethan's chest.
16:36Whatever came after that, he didn't really hear.
16:38They'd sold it.
16:39The place they picked out together.
16:41Floor plan.
16:42Finishes.
16:43Furniture.
16:43All of it chosen piece by piece.
16:45The place they'd said, without ever quite making it official, was going to be home.
16:50Ethan?
16:51Ethan, talk to me.
16:52What do we do?
16:55The doorman.
16:57Get me the new owner's contact.
16:59Or the realer, whoever handled the listing.
17:01Send it now.
17:02He was already moving toward the door.
17:04She sold it.
17:05She let it go.
17:06Five years of a life lived in that apartment.
17:08And she let it go.
17:09And if she let that go, did she let him go too?
17:12The thought surfaced and immediately took all the air out of the room.
17:16He dropped everything he'd been holding onto and called her.
17:19Once.
17:20Twice.
17:20Ten times.
17:21Hi, you've reached Hana.
17:23Please leave a message after the beep.
17:24She'd turned her phone off.
17:26On the day he'd finally, actually decided to go.
17:29Ethan pressed the screen dark.
17:31He drove out and found his friends.
17:33Who were standing around looking at each other with no useful answers.
17:36One of them eventually dug through the junk in his back seat.
17:41She had someone drop it in my car.
17:43You said you weren't going, so I just...
17:45Ethan took it.
17:46His eyes went straight to the four printed words at the top.
17:49Quinn and Hana.
17:51Together.
17:52His heart seized and released.
17:54Quinn.
17:55That was him.
17:56She'd tried it his way.
17:57The dress fittings without telling him.
17:59The sole department.
18:00The phone going dark.
18:01That wasn't like her.
18:02That was Lily's doing.
18:04Working her up into something extreme.
18:06But a name on an invitation didn't lie.
18:08His name.
18:09Where are we?
18:10The apartment's out.
18:12Forget the apartment.
18:13The hotel.
18:14Everyone pull it together.
18:15Quinn and Hana.
18:16Some of the anxiety began to level out.
18:18But it didn't disappear.
18:20It just sat there.
18:21Quieter.
18:21If she'd sent invitations, why was her phone off?
18:24Why wasn't Lily picking up either?
18:26Take it easy, man.
18:27When they reached the hotel, the easel board near the entrance read,
18:31Quinn and Hana.
18:33Together.
18:34He walked in fast.
18:36Past the check-in staff.
18:37Past the curious looks from arriving guests.
18:40He figured the looks were because he'd shown up looking like he'd been rushing.
18:44Not because of anything else.
18:45The ballroom was full of flowers.
18:48Every arrangement considered.
18:49Every detail placed with intention.
18:51Standing in the middle of it, Ethan felt something move through him.
18:55That was almost satisfaction.
18:57She'd put real care into this.
18:59The proposal on one knee.
19:01The input on her dress.
19:04The flowers.
19:06These should have been his gifts to her.
19:08Instead, he'd walked in like a guest who'd lost the address, receiving a finished fact.
19:14He pressed the feeling down.
19:15It was small of him to dwell on it.
19:17There would be other chances.
19:18He'd more than make it up to her.
19:20Excuse me, sir.
19:21I'll need to see your invitation.
19:23Ethan blinked.
19:24He didn't have an invitation.
19:26I'm the groom.
19:28I'm sorry.
19:29Could I confirm you're the groom, Mr. Quinn?
19:32Who else would I be?
19:33His patience was just about gone.
19:35His family hadn't been invited at all, which still sat badly with him.
19:39Curious looks kept finding him from across the room.
19:42Of course.
19:43I'm so sorry.
19:43The bride hasn't arrived yet, Mr. Quinn.
19:45I can take you to the waiting room off the main hall if you'd like.
19:48He waved her off.
19:50He walked straight down the carpet corridor toward the ballroom, faces he recognized, old friends, extended family on Hannah's side.
19:59It's been eight years and you finally made it.
20:02Where's the bride?
20:03Is she hiding?
20:04He managed smiles.
20:05Where was she?
20:06Where was Lily?
20:07He had no one to ask.
20:10He tried her phone again.
20:13Off.
20:14He was close to finding the hotel manager and demanding answers when a small stir broke out near the ballroom
20:20doors.
20:20He was ready, ready to see her come through those doors, in that dress, ready for whatever expression she'd be
20:26wearing, relief, or surprise, or a little bit of both, ready to stand in front of everyone and be exactly
20:32who she'd been asking him to be.
20:33He'd work out his feelings about the rest of it tonight, in private, let her know, gently, that this kind
20:39of thing couldn't happen again.
20:41First through were the flower girls, scattering petals, then Lily, in champagne, moving up the aisle.
20:47She saw him immediately.
20:49Ethan felt it hit him, like a hand on the chest.
20:52He slowed down without meaning to.
20:54She moved to the side, bent slightly, and made a gesture toward the door.
20:58Please welcome today's most beautiful bride, Hannah.
21:01And there she was, in the doorway.
21:03Ethan's heart knocked hard against his ribs.
21:07He stepped forward to go to her.
21:09At that exact moment, a man came from the other direction, past Ethan without looking at him, walked to the
21:15head of the aisle, extended his arm to Hannah.
21:17Please join me in welcoming today's happiest couple, our beautiful bride, Hannah, and our groom, Xavier Quinn.
21:28Xavier.
21:29Ethan's foot stopped moving.
21:31His whole body stopped.
21:32The blood went up fast and hard.
21:34Everything in the room swam.
21:36The only thing that stayed sharp was the couple at the center of the aisle, arm in arm.
21:42What the f-
21:44Ethan!
21:45What is happening right now?
21:47The groom's name is Xavier?
21:48So Quinn and Hannah means-
21:50Colliding.
21:50He couldn't hear them properly.
21:52There was a high, clean silence behind everything.
21:55At the way her fingers rested in the crook of another man's arm.
21:58No.
21:59This was wrong.
22:00This wasn't how it was supposed to go.
22:02He pushed through his friends, not carefully, and started toward the aisle.
22:05Well, Ethan.
22:09Move.
22:10She didn't move.
22:11She stepped closer.
22:13What exactly are you planning to do?
22:15Haven't you done enough?
22:16Look around you.
22:17This is not your day.
22:18This is not your room.
22:19She is mine.
22:20Eight years.
22:21We were together eight years.
22:22Who the hell is Xavier Quinn and why is he touching her?
22:25Hannah?
22:26Somebody tell me what is going on.
22:27Tell me right now.
22:28She's yours?
22:29Ethan, ask yourself honestly.
22:31In eight years, who was using who?
22:33How many chances did she give you?
22:35Can you even count them?
22:36The bouquet.
22:37Do you have any idea how much she'd built up to that moment?
22:40What it cost her to be standing there?
22:42She'd already met Xavier's parents.
22:44She'd gone out there and done that by herself.
22:47And she came back.
22:49That bouquet was your last exit ramp.
22:52All you had to do was walk over to her.
22:54Say something in public.
22:55Make one actual promise in front of people.
22:58She told me, if you did that, just that,
23:01she was going to call the whole thing off and keep waiting for you.
23:04Like she always had.
23:06Like an idiot.
23:09And what did you do?
23:11You reached over and took it out of her hands and gave it to Sophie.
23:14In front of everyone.
23:15And then you told her, we'll get the next one.
23:17Do you understand what you threw away?
23:19And Sophie, that secretary,
23:21how many times did she call you after you'd been drinking with that voice
23:24and make Hannah come pick you up?
23:26How many times did Hannah found a lipstick mark somewhere
23:28or caught a perfume that wasn't hers?
23:30How many times did Sophie things on Instagram that only you would understand?
23:33Little inside things.
23:35Photos.
23:36She even told Hannah directly.
23:37That the two of you had slept together.
23:43There was nothing there.
23:44That Hannah was reading too much into it.
23:46That Sophie was just his secretary.
23:47But the details were already moving.
23:49Surfacing without his permission.
23:51The late calls.
23:52An earring left in the car.
23:54The way Sophie worked certain things into conversation when Hannah was in the room.
23:58Details only the two of them would know.
24:01Hannah believed you every time.
24:03Every time.
24:04She swallowed the doubt by herself.
24:05Told herself she was overthinking it.
24:07And you told her it's just work.
24:08And she's my secretary.
24:09And you're imagining things.
24:11Ethan, where was your heart?
24:12Did she ever actually have it?
24:13Or did it go somewhere else a long time ago?
24:15That's not...
24:16I didn't...
24:17You deserve this.
24:19You lost the person in this world who loved you most.
24:21As of today, she's a Quinn.
24:23Just not yours.
24:26Don't cause a scene.
24:28I hired security.
24:29Ethan stood where he was.
24:31At the front of the room, Xavier carefully lifted Hannah's veil.
24:36Ethan, stop.
24:37Don't.
24:38Let go of me!
24:41She's mine!
24:42How is she doing this?
24:44How does she dare?
24:46Get it together.
24:47You know where you are right now?
24:48There are cameras everywhere.
24:50You just finished a Series B.
24:51There are people watching everything you do.
24:54You want tomorrow's headline?
24:55Tech founder has breakdown at wedding?
24:58Attempts to intervene?
24:59We're begging you.
25:01Whatever happens next, don't let it be this.
25:04You go out there and it doesn't fix anything.
25:07All it does is make her and everyone else in this room lose whatever respect they had left for you.
25:13Respect.
25:14Ethan's resistance stuttered.
25:16The word landed like ice water.
25:18He looked around.
25:18The MC had raised his voice, was telling a story about the couple, working hard to redirect the room's attention.
25:25It wasn't quite working.
25:26Too many faces had turned this way.
25:29Up at the front, Xavier's kiss had ended.
25:32That look.
25:33The fact that it had nothing in it.
25:35No anger.
25:36No satisfaction.
25:37Not even recognition of the damage.
25:39Cut through the last wire.
25:41Get him out of here.
25:42His friends traded a look, and half carried him toward the exit.
25:47Phone number no longer in service.
25:49Social media went dark.
25:51Instagram locked to everyone he was.
25:54Ethan called in every contact he had.
25:57It took time.
25:58Eventually, he pieced together.
25:59The day after the reception, she'd left with Xavier for Xavier Family City.
26:04A place Ethan had never once thought to learn anything about.
26:07She's just posturing and exaggerating.
26:09We set up a business in her city and bought a condo in the exact community she loves, but she
26:13hasn't shown the slightest desire to relocate.
26:15It's merely a passing phase, not a permanent stance.
26:18He tracked down the new owner of their apartment.
26:21Made an offer the person couldn't refuse.
26:24Standing in the doorway again.
26:25Key in hand.
26:26Looking at the empty rooms and the unfamiliar smell of them.
26:29Everything was the same.
26:30The faint marks in the wall where they'd hung photographs.
26:33Everything was different.
26:34He had the apartment cleaned and put back the way it had been.
26:37From memory.
26:38He took a few photos of the rooms, and found an old email address of hers, and sent them through.
26:42One line.
26:43Home is still here.
26:44You can come back whenever you want.
26:46No reply.
26:46He started showing up in her city.
26:48Business reasons he invented.
26:49He found out which park her parents walked through in the mornings.
26:52Hannah's doing well.
26:53She really is.
26:55I know I wasn't around enough before.
26:58I'm going to change that.
26:59He brought premium gift baskets and good fruit.
27:01He sat with her father and played chess, and listened to old stories, trying to reassemble
27:06a picture of her life.
27:08The past is the past.
27:10Don't be too hard on yourself.
27:12He wasn't being hard on himself.
27:13He was correcting a mistake.
27:14He held on to the fixed belief that patience and consistency would eventually open a door
27:18back.
27:19He had not understood that there was no one on the other side anymore.
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