My son's new girlfriend confessed she's known my husband for years

“My dad,” Sophie whispered, finally looking up. “I just wanted him to come home.”

Something softened in Ryan's face.

And suddenly, I saw them. Not as a couple entangled in a mess neither of them had created, but as two children who had been left behind.

None of them spoke after that.

They sat there, side by side, saying everything in their silence.

And I sat across from them, watching, breathing… mourning what we had lost.

When Oakley's best friend Sophie entrusts her with planning an engagement party, she's happy to help—until the event turns into a betrayal. Confronted with her cheating ex, Oakley is forced to question loyalty, love, and her own worth.