Chapter 1 – The Perfect Wedding

I never thought planning my own wedding would feel like attending a meeting for someone else's life.

If you'd asked anyone who knew me, they would've said I had everything a man could want.

A career that paid well.

A corner office overlooking the city.

A fiancée whose smile had appeared in enough lifestyle magazines to make strangers recognize her at restaurants.

From the outside, I was winning.

From the inside...

I wasn't sure when I'd stopped looking forward to my own future.

"Alex?"

Sophia's voice pulled me back.

She stood in the hallway adjusting the sleeve of her cream blazer while checking the...