PART 2: “The legal marriage certificate,

” Jimena said, her voice calm enough to freeze the summer air, “has already been signed by a man who actually knows how to be a husband.”

For three seconds, nobody breathed.

The reporters stopped shouting. The cameras kept flashing, but even the photographers looked stunned behind their lenses. Diego Armando stood halfway down the cathedral steps in his white designer tuxedo, one hand still holding his phone, his confident smile cracking like cheap porcelain.

The man beside Jimena did not look surprised.

Adrian Kane stood there in a charcoal suit, tall, composed, and dangerously quiet. In every business magazine across America, he was described as Diego Armando’s greatest rival: colder, sharper, richer, and far less forgiving. Diego had spent years mocking him as a “corporate wolf with no heart.”

Now Jimena had her hand resting on Adrian’s arm like she had chosen the wolf over the man who thought she was a pet.

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