Second Chance Vows

For the past eighteen years, my childhood sweetheart, Madison Young, teased that she’d be the one to claim them.

However, when I opened the box, the beads snapped and spilled across the floor, right in front of a blind girl passing by, Grace Bellamy. She bent down and picked them up.

Madison made a scene, urging me to marry her instead, just to please my father’s illegitimate son, Connor Vaughn.

Watching Grace stand there, flustered and surrounded, I stepped forward, shielding her with my body.

"Fine," I said. "I’ll marry her."

Madison Young stared at me, stunned. "What did you just say?"