Madly Yours (Nora Reed) novel Chapter 134

Ferris forced an awkward laugh, but his peripheral vision remained locked onto Edmond's reaction.

Edmond was leaning against the sofa, his face completely devoid of expression, almost unnervingly calm.

But Ferris noticed the way Edmond's fingers were tightening around his glass. His knuckles were bone-white, the veins bulging starkly across the back of his hand.

Oblivious, Joe kept talking. "I heard Mrs. Lancaster Sr. personally picked out this Reed girl. Apparently, their charts are a perfect match—she's supposed to bring him luck and ward off disaster. They just signed the marriage papers last month and are holding the ceremony at the end of this month. The entire San Francisco social elite is watching."

Holding the ceremony at the end of this month.

Those words branded themselves onto Edmond's heart like a red-hot iron.

His grip violently clamped down, and a sharp crack echoed from his palm as the glass fractured.

Panicked, Ferris hastily tried to change the subject. "Joe, are you sure you didn't mistake her for someone else? The woman in the photo is definitely Jade Reed?"

"How could I be mistaken? Mr. Lancaster even posted about it..."

Joe pulled out his own phone, tapped the screen a few times, and handed it over. "Look, right here. When I first saw it, I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me."

Ferris instinctively reached for it, but Edmond snatched it first.

It was Hudson's social media feed. There was no long caption, just a single photo.

Nora was crouching on the ground, petting a German Shepherd. Her shadow was stretched long by the setting sun, her dress fluttering gently in the breeze like a butterfly ready to take flight.

There was no elaborate text, no emojis, not even a full sentence.

But the sheer joy radiated from every pixel of that image, so intense it burned the eyes.

Scrolling further down—

It was a photo of a marriage certificate...

The caption accompanying the image was just one word.

[Mine.]

Edmond gripped the phone so hard his knuckles turned white.

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