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When Sofia vanishes on her wedding day, Elena is forced into her sister’s dress and sent down the aisle to face Mikhail Orlov. He knows she is the wrong bride—and marries her anyway. For one reckless moment, Elena thinks someone has finally chosen her. Then she learns the truth: Mikhail made her his wife because she was useful bait. Before she can walk away, Sofia hijacks an Orlov gala and publicly accuses Elena of funding her escape, using real payments from Elena’s own flower shop as proof. But Elena refuses to take the blame again. As she follows the money, the betrayal spreads through her entire family—and the deeper she digs, the more dangerous the truth becomes.
Chapter 1
My sister vanished ninety minutes before she was supposed to marry Mikhail Orlov.
My mother locked the dressing-room door and shoved Sofia’s beaded gown into my arms.
I had spent eleven months keeping my flower shop alive after my father used it as collateral, even selling my grandmother’s pearl earrings when collectors came for the rent.
Now my family wanted one more thing from me: stand at the altar, take the blame, and keep the Orlovs from calling in their debt.
I planned to tell Mikhail the truth the second he lifted my veil.
He looked straight at my face and said, “Continue.”
When my father tried to pull me aside after the vows, Mikhail removed his hand from my arm.
“No one touches my wife.”
For the first time in my life, someone had chosen me before Sofia.
Then I heard voices behind the closed library door.
“You married the wrong sister,” Anton said.
“No,” Mikhail answered. “I married the one her family was willing to sacrifice.”
“And if Sofia never comes back?”
“Then Elena stays useful until the people who helped her come looking.”
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