The Wedding Home He Stole

On her wedding bed, Clara finds a piece of white lace lingerie that is not hers. The smart lock of the new home records that her fiancé, Ethan Carter, entered at two in the morning and stayed six hours and forty-seven minutes. When she calls him, a girl's coy laughter sounds in the background — Mia Reed, an intern at his company. He claims he was at the office rushing a proposal.

Clara bought the apartment; her parents paid the down payment and she pays the mortgage herself. Ethan, a design director, insisted on handling the renovation personally. Now Mia's posts show her wearing Clara's bracelet, using her slippers and dinnerware, and testing the mattress in the wedding home.

Seven years of love, from school uniforms to a wedding dress, end at the dinner where Ethan's parents demand his name be added to the deed before the wedding.