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Chapter 1: Monica

“Where the hell a in my head intensified to the point I could barely see—it even felt like

The sheets wrapped around ainst et h to see what color they were I blinked several ti the world into focus, butso bad it felt like soainst ainst my chest I lifted up on my elbows and rolled over to see an empty bed beside ged across soed to get my eyes to focus and I pushed myself over to the side of the bed, so my feet could hit the floor I pulled the sheets away and saw that that my knees reflected exactly what I felt They were red and scrubbed, with a couple of marks that definitely looked like they had unceremoniously slid across the carpet Asnear the dooras the culprit The only thing that I couldn’t wrap ot there I rubbed ne bottle on the floor

Okay, well—I guessafter all?

My ears finally began to co besidesMy eyes shifted towards the direction of the noise and I saw stea out of what appeared to be the bathroom A smile slowly formed on my face, even with cloudy vision and a coht before It seeinity—I did kind of regret that I couldn’t remember it Dane was a total Bible thumper, and had been incredibly persistent with his decision to reht After several otten used to his quirky conservativeness He certainly wouldn’t have found any hesitation on my end if he wanted it, and by the look of the discarded clothes on the floor next to the chaed his mind I tried to stand, but my head felt like a sack of bricks on my shoulders I decided to lay back on the bed and wait until so stopped My hand clasped on the front of er

Holy shit! Is that a wedding band? Oheloped!

Next to theDane had put on ainst it The s pounding in my head, but even that couldn’t stop the exciteh , nervous that soot down the aisle, but it seeht Dane didn’t coet into my panties—he married o silent The door opened further and I could already iine the look on his face when he had to explain how the hell we ended up in aht of the world off my shoulders, I still intended to tease hiainst the steam and leaned forward

“You just couldn’t wait, could you—you had to have a piece of this” I motioned toon my pelvis

“You were nothing special” The voice didn’t belong to my fiancé—the steaed to, I saw his brother Grady e from the bathroom

“Grady? What the fuck?” I grabbed the sheets and quickly bunched them up around me

“Is that any way to speak to your husband?” He walked through the remainder of the steam with a torapped around his waist

“My husband?” My eyes fixated on the wedding band “No! How the hell did this happen? I can’t ed to your brother!”

“You sure as fuck weren’t thinking about my brother when you said your vows” He chuckled and leaned over to pick up his jeans from the floor “It’s all over social media—check it out”

“What?” I looked around the room

The pounding in my head was replaced with panic I found htstand and it didn’t have much battery left, but when I clicked on my social media accounts, I saw all that I needed to see There were photographs ofin front of an Elvis is, and lots of shocked reactions I couldn’t reht before, and the pictures only ed to Dane Dane was supposed to bein e football, he was predicted to be a first round pick in the upco NFL draft My heart sank into h the pictures It was like watching a horrorrole, but none of it was faain with his jeans on and picked up his t-shirt He slid it over his head and down his torso, covering the ink on his chest

“What’s wrong?” He smirked “You don’t like what you see?”

“How did this happen?” I put ain “We can’t be married! This has to be some kind of cruel trick!”

“It isn’t a trick You’rehis feet into his boots

“You took advantage ofup in ht of what happened started to resonate within me

“I didn’t take advantage of you” He shook his head “You are the one that tried to take advantage of ht you off Don’t worry, I didn’t fuck you It was te, but you were already passed out by the ti

ot you on the bed”