She stood before three hundred guests in a wedding dress she had not chosen, about to marry a man she had never met. A man everyone said was paralyzed from the waist down. A man condemned to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
The Hart family—the people who had raised her—had made it brutally clear.
“You’ll take your sister’s place. You’ll marry him. We don’t care what you want.”
So Simone agreed.
Not because she wanted to, but because marrying a stranger was the only way out of the hell she had endured for eighteen years.
Yet as she walked down the aisle, something felt wrong.
The way Cameron Vance sat in that wheelchair—too still, too
