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I was standing in my wedding dress, just minutes before walking down the aisle, when the man I loved looked me in the eyes and said, “I’m sorry, but I can’t marry you. My parents are categorically against such a poor daughter-in-law.”

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for me to become part of the powerful Vale family.

Adrian could barely hold my gaze.

“Say something, Clara,” he muttered weakly.

I looked at the man who had sworn he would love me forever. Then I looked at the parents who had spent two years pretending to tolerate me while quietly despising everything I represented.

Mrs. Vale stepped forward first.

“Don’t continue reading …

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