My best friend is marrying my husband novel Chapter 5

ria didn’t reach for the plane tickets. She simply looked at Stephen, at the lingering excitement in his eyes, the barely

contained joy of a man preparing for his wedding.

“Stephen.” she finally said, her voice so calm it surprised even herself, “Julia is my best friend. We’ve known each other

since we were kids.”

“In middle school, when I was being bullied, she stepped in front of a bucket of glue for me.”

“In college, when a man followed me home, she was the one who stayed with me while we called the police. She helped

me fight him off.”

Stephen’s brows tightened slightly, as if he wanted to speak, but Maria continued before he could.

“And since you were willing to deceive me for six years just to marry her, even hiding our child in the process, then I need

you to-”

She paused. Every word felt like it scraped past her teeth. “Treat her well.”

Maria lifted her gaze, meeting his eyes without wavering. “Break her heart, Stephen, and I will be the last thing you ever

see coming.”

Stephen’s throat moved. He watched her, as if trying to determine whether she was bluffing.

After a long moment, he let out a short, humorless laugh. A faint trace of mockery slipped into his voice. “Are we

finished with the theatrics?”

Maria felt something sharp pierce through her chest.

This wedding.” Stephen said, stepping toward her, his tone low and unyielding, “I’ve worked on it for a long time. You

have no idea how much effort I’ve put into it.”

I won’t let anyone ruin it. Not even you.”

He paused, his eyes flickering with a strange mixture of desperation and exhaustion.

“Afterward, you can punish me however you want. Money, shares, compensation… anything. If you want me to throw

away my pride and apologize, I’ll do it.“.

Maria stared at him, stunned. She had never seen this version of Stephen. He looked almost raw. Almost desperate,

Begging, not for her, but for his perfect wedding to another woman.

For Julia, he could lower himself this far. So he wasn’t incapable of loving someone. It was simply that he had never

loved her.

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“I only need you to do one thing.” Stephen said quietly when he saw the shock in her expression.

Take our daughter on vacation. Just for one month. I can’t risk anything going wrong with the wedding. Once it’s over,

I’ll take care of everything. I’ll compensate both of you properly.”

Compensation. As if throwing her the scraps left over from his grand love story could erase six years of lies and betrayal.

It would have been funny if it weren’t so tragic. Maria stayed silent for a long time, so long that Stephen almost seemed

to hope she would cave the way she always had.

Then she raised her head and asked the question she once believed she would never ask.

“Stephen… when you realized that the woman you were desperate to marry was my best friend… did you ever, even for a

second, feel guilty toward me? Toward our daughter?”

The air grew heavy. Stephen’s lashes trembled almost imperceptibly. He turned away, staring at the dark night outside

the window.

When he finally spoke, his voice was quiet. “Yes.”

Maria’s heart gave a faint, fragile flutter. But the next words crushed it without mercy.

“But I was more afraid that Julia would find out the truth and leave me.”

He said it so calmly. So naturally. As if six years of marriage and a child who called him Dad were nothing more than

obstacles he had been forced to hide.

And now, that obstacle had nearly destroyed the happiness he had painstakingly built.

Maria looked at him, at the obsession burning in his eyes for another woman, at the madness and determination he

harbored to protect that romance at any cost.

And suddenly, she no longer felt pain. She had moved past the breaking point into a vast, frozen tundra of indifference.

Completely numb.

1. e. She heard her own voice, soft as a sigh. “I’ll take our daughter and go.”

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