Blurb:
When Juliana’s "perfect" fiancé Alaric Langley goes viral for his romantic "Six Vows" TikTok, she discovers his sixth vow – a soulmate tattoo – matches his intern Daisy’s. Armed with hidden cameras and a burning rage, Juliana livestreams their Tokyo "honeymoon" to 3 million viewers, exposing the hummingbird tattoos, stolen heirlooms, and a soda-can ring engraved with **A & D Forever**. Will her Dragon’s Tooth revenge destroy Alaric’s empire at Aethelgard Labs – or is Daisy’s tearful "suicide act" enough to flip the script? #CheatingFiancé meets #ViralRevenge in this twist-packed drama where Tiktok fame becomes a cheater’s downfall.
Content:
§PROLOGUEThe notification for our marriage license glowed on my phone screen, a cheerful digital promise.
Right below it, another notification pulsed from TikTok.
It was a video from my fiancé, Alaric Langley.
His alternate account, the one he thought I didn’t know about.
“Six Vows to Myself,” the caption read, and it already had over a million likes.
His handsome face filled the screen, eyes glistening with what the world saw as devotion.
"First," he began, raising a glass of whiskey, "a vow to the five-year-old me, who stole his mother's gold ring to propose to her."
"Second, a vow to the high school me, who intentionally bombed a final exam so we could go to the same college."
"Third, a vow to the man I became, who worked three jobs to buy her the house of her dreams by thirty."
"Fourth, a vow to twenty-five years of knowing and loving her, of never, ever leaving her side."
"Fifth, a vow to a lifetime of promises I will never break."
A bitter smile touched my lips.
His childish sentimentality.
Then, he spoke his sixth vow.
"And sixth," he said, his voice dropping to a conspiratorial whisper, "a vow to sharing a soulmate tattoo with the one I truly love. No regrets."
The world tilted.
The digital promise on my screen turned into a digital death sentence.
I looked across the table at the real Alaric, sitting in the sterile light of the Austin municipal clerk’s office.
The collar of his shirt was slightly open, and I could just make out the faint, dark lines of a hummingbird tattoo on his collarbone, its wings forever in mid-flight.
The other hummingbird, the one that completed the pair, I had seen it on his intern's shoulder.
§01
The comments section was a flood of adoration, tens of thousands of messages praising a man I no longer recognized.
【This man is a king. I believe in love again.】
【Twenty-five years devoted to one woman? My ex cheated on me in four months. I'm crying.】
【Where can I find a man like this? Is there a sign-up sheet??】
They didn’t know.
They didn’t know that the woman they envied was staring at her phone, her thumb trembling over the screen.
I swiped over to Instagram, my movements stiff, robotic.
I pulled up Daisy’s profile.
There it was, in her most recent story.
A picture of her laughing on a boat on Lake Travis, her shoulder angled toward the camera.
The hummingbird was perfectly clear, a delicate piece of art frozen in mid-air.
Her caption was a poisoned dart aimed directly at my heart.
【Sharing a soulmate tattoo with the one you love… isn't that what a lifetime together is all about? ;)】
A tear hit the screen, distorting her smiling face.
The dam broke.
A choked sob escaped my lips.
Alaric, who had been grinning at his own phone, finally looked up.
His expression soured when he saw my red-rimmed eyes.
"What now, Jules? Reading more of that toxic positivity nonsense?"
"I’m not being good enough for you? Is that what it is? Because I seem to recall moving your precious intern to our Tokyo division just to appease your jealousy."
"Poor kid, all alone in a foreign country, I wonder how she’s…"
My fingers tightened around my phone until the knuckles were white.
§02
I had never doubted Alaric's love.
Not until six months ago.
A welcome-home party for my best friend, Morgan, had run late, and I'd asked Alaric to pick me up from a bar on East Sixth Street.
I saw Daisy get out of the passenger seat as his car pulled up, a bag of Flamin' Hot Cheetos clutched in her hand.
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