ON MY WEDDING DAY, MY MIL ORDERED ME TO PLAY THE SUBSERVIENT MAID FOR 30 MEN.

“You hit me.”

“You hit me twice.”

Lorraine shrieked, “After everything we’ve done for you!”

I almost laughed.

Everything they had done for me?

I had paid the ballroom deposit through my events company.

I had covered Daniel’s company payroll twice when his construction business came close to collapsing.

And inside my white bridal clutch was a flash drive containing copies of purchase orders Daniel had asked me to “clean up” for a bank review—documents I had discovered were forged.

Daniel believed he was marrying a softhearted woman with money.