I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Novel by Anonymous

I Made His Wife's Dress Now I'll Marry Another Novel by Anonymous
I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Novel by Anonymous

 

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Novel by Anonymous

 

I spent eleven months making my own wedding dress.

 

But on the night of the Whitmore centennial show, the woman who walked up the grand staircase wearing it was my adopted sister, Sabine.

 

She stood in the spotlight, one hand resting on a stomach that wasn’t yet showing, the other looped through my fiancé Adrian’s arm. The reporters’ flashes bleached the world white. He didn’t let go of her. He simply stood by as his PR team announced that the baby was his, and that they would be getting married as soon as possible.

 

Backstage, the size card I had written for myself still hung from the garment rack.

 

I reached inside the gown and found the hand-sewn label hidden at the waist seam, in the most discreet place I could manage—

 

Clara Whitmore, Bride.

 

With my dressmaker’s shears, I sliced it from the seam, broke off the engagement, and flew to Paris that same night.

 

Over the next six years, Adrian sent me more than three hundred emails.

 

I never replied to a single one.

 

I didn’t set foot in New York again until my mother’s kidneys began to fail, and the donor lined up for her paired exchange suddenly backed out. 

I Made His Wife's Dress Now I'll Marry Another Novel by Anonymous

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 70

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 70 It rained on our wedding day. The old print shop roof still leaked, and my apprentices set out nine metal buckets to catch the drops. The sound on the wooden floor made a pleasant, uneven rhythm. My mother fastened the last hidden closure for

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I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 69

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 69 The wedding was handled by neither Whitmore nor the Moreau Foundation. I designed the dress myself. On the third draft, I pushed the sketch across the table to everyone in the studio. “Anyone who wants to work on this can sign up for the

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I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 68

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 68 A year later, Sofia turned eighteen. The temporary guardianship ended automatically on her birthday. Her lawyer placed the termination papers in front of her. She read every page, then signed her own name. “So now you can’t sign school documents for me anymore,” she

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I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 67

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 67 Before the ninety-day license expired, my father came to Paris. He didn’t ask to renew all the silhouettes. He only brought three samples from Whitmore’s new, independent design team. “The board wants to adopt your maker-credit system,” he said. “The system doesn’t belong to

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I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 66

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 66 Visible Seam’s first public presentation had no closing wedding dress. I made nine coats, one for each of the master patterns whose name had been restored. Each one kept only a single structural element from the original. Everything else was redrafted. Behind every piece

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I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 65

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 65 The old print shop in Paris was even worse than the photographs had suggested. The roof leaked. The floor slanted. The biggest cutting table had a scorched edge. My mother, however, made one circuit of the windows and declared that the afternoon light would

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I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 64

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 64 Paolo died on the ninth day after we reached Paris. Sofia didn’t fly back to New York immediately. First, she spoke to her lawyer. Then she sat alone in the studio for an entire afternoon. At dusk, she came to me with her return

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I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 63

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 63 Before we flew back to Paris, Sofia’s guardianship evaluation completed its first phase. She chose to proceed with the planned six-week stay. Paolo did not come to the airport. The night before, his lungs had taken a sharp turn for the worse, and he

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I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 62

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 62 On the day the ruling was made public, Adrian came to see me. He had taken off his wedding ring. “The divorce is final,” he said. “The court confirmed I’m not Leo’s biological father, but I petitioned to retain visitation rights. Sabine agreed.” “That’s

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I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 61

I Made His Wife’s Dress Now I’ll Marry Another Chapter 61 That same night, the board suspended Grandfather’s management authority. It wasn’t a sudden crisis of conscience. Cross had halted all purchase talks. The company’s insurers were demanding a re-examination of the old factory accident. Royalties from the nine core silhouettes were under court supervision.

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