Geff rarely frowned and narrowed his eyes a little.

“Tyara, come choose with me then. Geff must want to see what his wife looks like in a wedding dress, right?”

I was about to refuse, when a man carrying a design book walked over. I recognized him as Geff’s good friend, Logan Avery.

He did not see me sitting there and went straight to Geff. “Finally! It wasn’t easy, but you actually brought Mrs. Sincle along?”

My heart jumped hard. Even though I had been married to Geff for ten years, his friends always called me “Miss Varch”, not Mrs. Sincle. He told me it was out of respect.

I looked past Logan’s shoulder and met Geff’s eyes, wanting an explanation. But he quietly looked away. “Yeah. Let her choose.”

Elise took the design book and glanced at me. Then she smiled and sat down to look through it. Just like that, I was treated as if I did not exist.

Logan secretly poked Geff’s arm, a teasing look in his eyes. “I did not expect this. You even got Miss Varch pregnant?”

Geff was silent for a moment, then took out a cigarette and put it in his mouth. “Why talk about her? Elise’s baby is the real one.”

Logan stopped him from lighting the cigarette. “Do not smoke here. Do you want to ruin all my wedding dresses?”

Then he looked at Elise who was choosing dresses. “Hey, back then when you fought with your first love and married Tyara out of anger, we even bet on whether it was real. The others trusted you so much, and you actually went through with it. It made me lose 1,5 thousand dollars for nothing.”

Geff gave a cold laugh. “Who told you to bet?”

He talked about me and Elise so casually with his close friend. I looked at him, the sadness in my heart would not go away.

After we got our marriage certificate, I wanted to talk to him about the wedding, but he left me at the City Hall.

Logan handed me an envelope and told me Geff was very busy, so he probably had no time to hold a wedding. The few friends who came today to witness the registration treated it as attending a wedding banquet, so they gave me the money as a “gift.”

I listened quietly, my hands trembling behind my back where no one could see. At some point, my eyes filled with tears. So that so-called “wedding gift money” was actually the punishment Logan and the others paid because they lost a bet.

I once naively believed that at least in the beginning, Geff loved me, and that his friends were also decent people. I never expected everything to be a game from the start, and I was the biggest joke in that game.

The next moment, Elise’s voice cut into the conversation. She smiled and held up the design book, pointing to a page. “Do you still have this one? I like this dress.”

Logan walked over and bent down. When he saw the design, he froze a little.

Elise noticed something was wrong. “What?”

“This…” Logan scratched his head and hesitated before speaking. “This was designed by Miss Varch…”

Suddenly I remembered, in the second year of my marriage, I secretly went to Logan and asked him to teach me how to draw designs. Then I personally drew a wedding dress design, and beside it was a suit I designed for Geff.

Every size was measured carefully.

I secretly took his old custom made suits and measured them one by one. But Geff never talked about having a wedding, so the design was slowly forgotten.

I looked at the now yellowed paper, my heart hurting so much I could not breathe.

Geff’s face changed slightly — something very rare.

“But this wedding dress was mistaken by my assistant as my new design, so it was made. If you want to try it, I can go get it for you…” As Logan spoke, he turned around and finally saw someone sitting behind him.

When he saw who it was, his eyes widened in shock and he opened his mouth. “Miss… Miss Varch?”

I looked at the man’s shocked face and gave him a calm smile. “Am I disturbing you?”

A guilty look flashed in Logan’s eyes. “I am sorry, Miss Varch. We made that dress without your permission…”

“It is fine. If Miss Heggart likes it, that is an honor for the dress. I can give the copyright of this design to you as a wedding gift.”

Elise froze for a moment. After understanding my words, she turned to look at Geff, her eyes full of joy and hope.

But this time, he did not look at her. I felt a burning gaze fixed on me.

Geff frowned and took a step toward me. “A wedding gift? Tyara, are you crazy? Even if you are jealous, there should be a limit!”

I looked at him in confusion. He called this jealousy?

“I think this is good. It is unique, and it is free. It saves money.”

Geff stared at me, as if he wanted to say more. Just then, the staff pushed the dress out.

The white silver fabric flowed like water. The hem was embroidered with silver patterns, and tiny diamonds were set on the dress like a shining galaxy. It was not loud or flashy like normal wedding dresses. Its simple mermaid shape was like a beautiful mermaid from the deep sea.

I looked at the dress and felt the heart I had when I designed it. That heart believed that a beautiful mermaid would grow legs for true love.

Elise’s voice broke the silence. She picked up the dress and happily held it in front of the mirror. “Wow, Logan, your staff is really careful. They even made it in my size.”

Looking at Elise’s back, my eyelashes trembled slightly. To be honest, I suddenly felt sorry for the woman I used to be. Everyone knew the truth, but I refused to believe it and willingly became a joke for ten years. The wedding dress I designed myself was secretly changed into another woman’s size.

A sharp pain spread from my heart through my whole body.

Elise suddenly came over and grabbed my hand, smiling sweetly at me. “Tyara, you are the designer of this dress. Why don't you help me put it on? I do not mean anything bad. I just think you understand this dress better…”

She pulled me into the fitting room. Then she gave me a jealous smile, and a cold feeling ran down my back.

“Tyara, do you really think one simple design can change Geff’s heart?” Elise looked at me with a twisted, ugly expression. “I am telling you, Geff only has me in his heart. Today he can come with me to try on wedding dresses just because I said so. Tomorrow he can make your name disappear from the marriage paper!”

I stepped back and said carefully, “I don’t care who is in his heart anymore. I will leave him.”

Elise laughed coldly. “Leave? Everyone knows you are just Geff’s loyal pet. You pretend not to care just to make him curious. You are really sneaky.”

As she spoke, she slowly walked toward me, the killing intent in her eyes growing stronger.

I moved back little by little until my back hit the window. My heart was beating wildly. “What are you doing?”

“What am I doing?” Elise glanced back, then showed me an innocent smile. “I am helping you face the truth.”

With that, Elise pushed me hard out of the window.

The next second, an overwhelming feeling of falling covered my whole body.

When I opened my eyes again, a man was sitting beside the hospital bed. I opened my mouth, but the pain in my throat made me frown.

Adrian heard the sound and turned around. The cold look in his eyes became gentle. He handed me a cup of water and said seriously, “What is Geff even doing? If it had not been snowing heavily in Larkridge these days, you would not have survived.”

My eyelashes trembled as the memory of the wedding dress shop rushed back.

“I did not want to tell you this, but you must know… you fell from such a high place. It was already a miracle to survive. And because your emotions were not stable, the baby… could not be saved.”

The dull look in my eyes finally changed.

After a while, I weakly forced a smile. “Maybe it is better that the child did not come into this world.”

After all, if the little one knew what kind of man his father was, he would probably hate his mother.

Out of the corner of my eye, I suddenly saw the bandages on Adrian’s arm, and my gaze shifted.

“You are hurt?”

Before Adrian could answer, his assistant spoke first. “Mr. Donovan rushed here as soon as he got off the plane. He happened to see you being pushed down, and he got hurt while trying to save you…”

Adrian gave the man a cold look, telling him to stop.

I looked at him with mixed feelings. So many words were stuck in my throat that I did not know how to say them.

He seemed to understand and gave a light smile. “It is fine. Just a small injury. Do not feel guilty. Everything has been arranged. In three days, everything will disappear.”

Through Adrian, I looked at my reflection in the mirror in the distance.

After a long moment, I nodded slowly. “Thank you.”

When I returned home from the hospital, I went straight to the bedroom to pack my things.

But inside, I saw Elise in a bathrobe. She froze for a moment when she saw me, then smiled brightly and turned around. “Oh, Tyara, your luck is really good as always. Guess what happened these past few days?”

Looking at the woman who caused my child’s death, my heart started beating wildly, beyond my control.

Elise raised her hand and showed the huge diamond ring on her ring finger.

I recognized it at once. It was the first ring Geff gave me when he proposed. It was our promise ring. I kept it in a box, afraid to scratch it, never willing to wear it.

“I told Geff I was going to get married. That day was meant to be our final goodbye, but I never expected my words to provoke him… to make him…” Elise glanced casually at the big bed behind her.

That was where he and I had been together on our wedding night.

Her voice continued, “He punished me for three days and three nights. No matter how much I begged, it did not stop. So, Tyara, it is not that I refuse to give Geff back to you. It is that he cannot live without me.”

I looked at her proud face, my stomach twisting in disgust.

Suddenly, Elise seemed to remember something and placed her hand on her lower belly. “Oh anyway, do you know why Geff immediately said the baby in my belly is his? Because… it really is his.”

The woman walked closer, looking straight into my eyes. “I told him to be careful not to hurt our baby, but he was still rough and out of control. He said he would make me pregnant again, so I would be tied to him forever.”

Elise smiled. “Maybe right now, I am already carrying twins.”

Her words made me shake with anger. I hit her hard, sending her to the floor. “Elise, before I divorce Geff, you will always be a shameless third woman!”

Looking down at her, I bent closer, my eyes burning with rage. “A mistress should know her place.”

The next second, the door was suddenly pushed open.

A furious voice froze me in place. “Tyara, what are you doing?”