Story By Daniel Barizaa
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Daniel Barizaa

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IF ONLY YOU HAD LISTEN
Updated at Jul 26, 2026, 12:26
Two days before her dream wedding, Isabella Hart receives an anonymous photo that shatters her world. Her fiancé, Adrian Sterling, is half-naked in a hotel bed with another woman. The woman's face is hidden, but one familiar bracelet catches Isabella's attention. Heartbroken, she turns to the one person she trusts most, her best friend, Vanessa. By morning, the wedding was cancelled. Adrian wakes with no memory of the previous night, but sees a news headline that the wedding has been cancelled. Desperate to understand why the woman he loves refuses to see him and also cancelled their wedding. When every attempt to reach Isabella fails, he seeks help from the only person still willing to speak to him, Vanessa. Determined to confront Adrian one last time, Isabella walks into his house and finds Vanessa holding him in an intimate embrace. Then a single gunshot tears through the silence. One betrayal. One cancelled wedding. One carefully planned lie that refuses to stay buried. As old wounds deepen and new feelings begin to grow, Isabella and Adrian are pulled further apart by secrets neither of them knows exist. But if everything they believed was a lie... Who then has been controlling their lives from the shadows?
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