I married my high school sweetheart after 15 years together — on our first anniversary, I heard him say, “She still has no idea what I’ve been planning.”

had helped his family.

She wanted my property.

Wesley was supposed to persuade me to sell it.

When that failed, he was supposed to marry me and get enough control over our finances that I would eventually sign something without asking too many questions.

That was why the proposal had finally come.

Not because fifteen years had made him certain.

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