The wedding had been planned for nearly a year.
The flowers were perfect. The guests had traveled from different cities. The bride looked radiant in her white dress, and the groom, Daniel, had spent the morning greeting relatives and pretending he wasn’t nervous.
Everyone thought they were watching the beginning of a beautiful marriage.
They were wrong.
Daniel and Claire had been together for three years. To everyone around them, their relationship seemed almost flawless.
They rarely argued in public.
They traveled together.
They posted photographs from restaurants, vacations, and family celebrations.
Claire was especially admired by Daniel’s family. She was warm, attentive, and seemingly devoted to him.
So when Daniel walked toward the altar that afternoon, nobody expected anything unusual.
