At Isolde’s wedding, Tucker’s best friend, Sloane, proposed a game she called “Price the Vows.”
She looped a ribbon around Isolde and gave it a hard yank.
The ribbon, marked with five thousand dollars, went taut, and Isolde’s wedding dress nearly slipped.
“I’m offering five grand to buy her out of marrying Tucker.”
Sloane jerked her chin toward the massive screen behind the altar.
“Simple rules. Each ribbon has an amount written on it, plus something Tucker is willing to sacrifice from his vows. If he makes the transfer, he agrees to the terms.”
Tucker just smiled and sent the money.
Sloane flashed the payment screenshot on the big screen.
A public payment from an heir was as good as a binding agreement.
Isolde clenched her fists, ready to refuse the guests now closing in around her.
Tucker lowered his voice. “Sloane’s just trying to liven things up. Don’t make a scene.”
Isolde froze.
Once, Sloane had stuffed balloons under her shirt and faked a pregnancy, tricking Isolde, a surgeon, into pressing a stethoscope to her stomach to listen for a heartbeat.
Then she’d popped them right in her face.
The blast had left Isolde with temporary hearing loss.
Tucker had called it a great joke.
On the night of their engagement party, Sloane had deliberately left a drunk Isolde stranded outside a bar.
That neighborhood wasn’t under Tucker’s protection. A stranger had nearly dragged her into a car.
Tucker had insisted that was just a joke, too.
In his eyes, everything Sloane did was entertaining.
The guests began scrambling to tie ribbons to the hem of her dress.
One man held his up and shouted, “I wrote thirty grand. To buy the audacity she has, marrying a guy like you.”
“If you dare make that transfer, the wedding’s off,” Isolde said, her voice ice.
Tucker frowned. “Everyone’s just having fun. Come on, honey. Don’t be like this.”
Sloane chimed in from the side. “Yeah. Don’t be such a killjoy.”
The next second, a phone notification chimed.
A thirty-thousand-dollar transfer receipt appeared on the big screen.
The room erupted.
Suddenly, Isolde didn’t have the energy to argue anymore.
Sloane was right.
From the start, this whole thing had been a meaningless, humiliating charade.
The Wedding Game That Cost Him Everything Chapter 08 Sloane froze for a second, then shoved him. “Don’t be such a sore loser. Which of the things I did to her happened without your approval?” “Now your woman runs off, and you’re taking it out on me?” Tucker couldn’t deny it. A lot of the
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The Wedding Game That Cost Him Everything Chapter 07 “What did you do?” He was panicking, though he tried to keep his face a mask of calm. Sloane waved her phone. “Exactly what you think. I told Isolde.” “Doesn’t that sound fun? Make her choose between you and her dead parents.” She tapped at the
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The Wedding Game That Cost Him Everything Chapter 06 Sloane lay on Tucker’s bed wearing Isolde’s robe, scrolling on her phone. “I wouldn’t be so sure. You scattered her parents’ ashes.” Tucker glanced toward the study, his expression complicated. The two boxes he had dumped into the fish tank had actually been filled with ashes
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The Wedding Game That Cost Him Everything Chapter 05 Isolde disappeared. At first, Tucker didn’t think anything of it. Isolde was a surgeon. Her schedule was usually packed, and more often than not, she didn’t even have time for dinner with him. Three months ago, Sloane had pulled that “fake pregnancy” prank and damaged her
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The Wedding Game That Cost Him Everything Chapter 04 “Be good. Sloane handled all the wedding arrangements. Don’t waste her effort.” Tucker took Isolde’s phone and locked her in the dressing room. He used his authority as the heir to control the door. No one dared let her out. Isolde borrowed the makeup artist’s phone.
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The Wedding Game That Cost Him Everything Chapter 03 Isolde’s heart stopped. She spun and ran for the exit. She shoved Sloane, hard enough to make her stagger. She had just stepped into the elevator when Tucker hauled her back out. “Apologize to Sloane.” His grip was bruising. He pointed to Sloane’s unmarked arm. A
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The Wedding Game That Cost Him Everything Chapter 02 Tucker opened his mouth to speak. “Sloane, come look at this. I can’t figure out how it’s supposed to go.” Stepping over the pile of shredded fabric and ribbons, Sloane lowered her head and scratched at her hair. Tucker laughed and walked over. “As if I’d
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The Wedding Game That Cost Him Everything Chapter 01 At Isolde’s wedding, Tucker’s best friend, Sloane, proposed a game she called “Price the Vows.” She looped a ribbon around Isolde and gave it a hard yank. The ribbon, marked with five thousand dollars, went taut, and Isolde’s wedding dress nearly slipped. “I’m offering five grand
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