Larissa's POV Brayden stared blankly at me for so long that I was starting to think that he hadn’t heard a single word that I said. That or he had gone into shock. But then he nodded and went over the story again. “As I said before, we met a couple of years back while you were working at Patterson Financial Group, started talking, and started a relationship. I planned on proposing the night that Benjamin was supposed to take over the company because I had a lot of free time on my hands that day but then Lara’s murder happened. Still, I knew that you were innocent, so I stuck by your side, and we got married as soon as possible.” “So why didn’t we wait until after I was proven innocent before getting married?” I asked, questioning his reasoning. “Because I loved you. Because you needed

