The Absent Groom

1.

Ethan Cole left me at the altar on our wedding rehearsal day.

Right then, I made a choice.

I signed a ten-year contract for a top-secret project with the Department of Defense.

It meant I would vanish from his world completely.

For the next ten years, he hired the most expensive private investigators and used all his family’s connections in D.C.

But he never found a single trace of me.

A decade later, he wanders the lobby of the Four Seasons, the very hotel where I’m getting married ag