No Bride for the Billionaire

Celeste had a heart condition from childhood, and the family treated that as a standing bill her sister had to pay. The invitations, the menu, even the right to walk down the aisle first went to Celeste once she asked. Then William, the billionaire fiance, hung Celeste's bridal portrait at the hotel entrance and took her hand and walked her, dressed in white, onto the aisle that had been reserved for someone else. His fiancee slapped Celeste, told her that if she loved picking up trash she could keep the groom as well, and stopped arguing about it. On the wedding day William took Celeste to a cardiac specialist and left instructions that his bride was to be dressed and waiting when he got back. He returned to a hotel with no bride in it. The gown was gone. Every piece of decor that had been hers had been stripped out, leaving Celeste's oversized portrait, a room of charity donors, and a wedding with nobody to marry. William read it as sulking. What she was actually doing was going back for the name and the work he had kept buried under his own for seven years, and putting a price on any reconciliation that ran to the whole Blackwood empire.