What I hadn't counted on was that the very next day, on the morning of the wedding, Lilian came for me.
She knocked me out cold from behind.
When I finally opened my eyes, I found myself in some factory in the middle of nowhere. Lilian was sitting right across from me with hatred practically burning through her eyes.
"What are you doing, Lilian?" I said.
She clicked toward me in her heels.
"What am I doing? I should be asking you the same thing. You said you'd marry that man, so why did Howard go to our parents and beg them not to let you go through with it? Do you even know what they told him?"
I let out a bitter laugh. What could they possibly have said? I had long stopped expecting anything from them.
"Mom and Dad actually said they wouldn't let you marry him because it would tak
