Edrick’s POV. I couldn’t move. I stood there between the stage and… my wife? My mind wouldn’t catch up. My heart was beating too hard, too fast. My ears were ringing. The woman on stage holding her small bump, calling herself Aria, was looking straight at me. And the woman beside me… the woman I had been sleeping beside every night… the woman I kissed this morning… She stood quietly. Frozen. I turned to her slowly. “Aria… what’s going on?” But before she even opened her mouth, the one on stage lifted the mic again. “I am Aria,” she said. “And I have proof.” My stomach dropped. I wanted to scream for the guards to drag her away. I wanted to shut everything down. But instead… I stood still. I needed to know what this was. I needed to see. I needed to understand why my whole world

