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The Wedding Date I Never Cancelled

The Wedding Date I Never Cancelled

Branch, Danny

Paperback

RomanceGeneral Fiction

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ISBN13: 9798240885297
Publisher: Danny Baines Fall Branch
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.33 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Amelia Hayes has spent three years rebuilding her life after Miles Fairchild shattered it. Now, just as her interior design firm is thriving, a wedding invitation arrives from the very man she once loved-and the woman he chose instead. Attending would mean walking into a glittering world determined to remember her as the abandoned ex. Refusing would look like surrender. Her solution is as carefully designed as everything else in her life: ask her oldest friend, Lucas Sterling, to pose as her devoted boyfriend for the wedding weekend.Lucas is the one person Amelia trusts completely. He is successful, steady, and seemingly immune to the games of the Fairchild family. What she does not know is that his loyalty has always gone far beyond friendship. For years, Lucas has protected her from the shadows, quietly undermining Miles's influence, helping her business survive, and creating opportunities that allowed Amelia to believe she had rebuilt herself entirely on her own. He agrees to the fake relationship, but the closer they become, the harder it is to separate performance from truth.At the Fairchild estate, the masquerade succeeds. Amelia and Lucas appear perfectly in love, while Miles is forced to watch the woman he underestimated thrive without him. Yet the victory turns complicated when Amelia discovers the hidden hand behind some of her greatest successes. The contracts she thought were luck, the protection she thought was coincidence, and the independence she believed she had built alone all carry Lucas's fingerprints. His devotion suddenly looks both beautiful and frightening.Their confrontation forces Amelia to question the difference between protection and control, while Lucas must finally admit that his silence was not simply selflessness-it was fear. He has loved Amelia for a decade, but he was terrified that telling her would make his love feel like another obligation. As the wedding's carefully constructed facade collapses, Amelia realizes that defeating Miles was never the real goal. What matters is choosing a life built on honesty, mutual trust, and freedom.In the end, Amelia refuses to return to the old version of their friendship. Instead, she asks Lucas to build something new with her-not a relationship shaped by secrets, rescue, or obligation, but a partnership in which both of them are allowed to choose. Their first real kiss is not part of the wedding performance. It is the beginning of a future they will design together, with no hidden rooms and no invisible architect.

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