PART 2 — THE BETRAYAL IN ROOM 237
Amy’s mother gasped.
Chapter 2
PART 2: THE BRIDE OPENED ROOM 237 WITHOUT CRYING—THEN EXPOSED EVERY MONSTER HIDING BEHIND HER WEDDING
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Her father cursed under his breath.
Aunt Rose whispered, “Dear God.”
Amy simply stood there.
No screaming.
No slap.
No collapse.
No shattered bride.
Only silence.
Then Maverick stirred. His eyes opened slowly, unfocused at first, until he saw Amy standing in the doorway.
His face emptied.
“Amy…”
Penelope jolted awake beside him, clutching the sheet to her chest. Her dark hair fell over one shoulder. Her mouth opened, but no words came out.
“Amy, wait,” Maverick said, scrambling upright. “I can explain.”
Amy tilted her head.
“Explain what?”
Penelope began to cry. “It’s not what it looks like.”
Amy looked at the suit jacket. The dress. The champagne bottle. The bed.
“No,” Amy said. “It is exactly what it looks like.”
Maverick stumbled out of bed and reached for his shirt. “Please. Don’t do this here. We can talk privately.”
Amy smiled.
A small smile.
Cold.
“Privately?”
She turned
to her father.
“Call them.”
His eyes burned. “Who?”
“His parents. His sister. His godfather. Everyone important.” Amy looked back at Maverick. “Tell them to come to Room 237.”
Maverick went pale.
“Amy, no.”
Penelope sobbed harder. “Please don’t humiliate us.”
Amy looked at her.
“You chose the room,” she said. “I’m only choosing the audience.”
Her father pulled out his phone.
Maverick stepped toward her. “Amy, listen to me. This was a mistake.”
“A mistake is forgetting the rings,” Amy said. “This took planning.”
“No, it didn’t.”
Penelope shook her head. “We didn’t mean for it to happen.”
Aunt Rose laughed once, sharp and dry.
“People never mean to get caught, darling.”
Amy lifted her phone and called Maverick’s mother.
Mrs. Bennett answered on the second ring.
“Amy? Where are you? Everyone is asking—”
“You need to come to Room 237 at the Millbrook Inn,” Amy said. “Bring your
husband. Bring Clara. Bring Viktor.”
A pause.
“What happened?”
Amy looked at Maverick standing half-dressed in front of her.
“You should see it yourself.”
Then she ended the call.
For ten minutes, no one moved.
Then footsteps thundered down the hallway.
The door burst open.
Mrs. Bennett entered first, elegant in silver silk, her polite smile dying the moment she saw the room. Behind her came Mr. Bennett, red-faced and stiff. Maverick’s sister Clara followed, then Viktor Hale, Maverick’s powerful godfather, the man who had financed half of his business deals.
They all stopped.
Mrs. Bennett covered her mouth.
Clara whispered, “Mav… what have you done?”
Maverick stood. “Mom, please—”
Mr. Bennett stepped forward and slapped his son across the face.
The sound cracked through the room.
Penelope flinched.
Mrs. Bennett looked at Amy with tears in her eyes.
“I am so sorry.”
Amy nodded once.
But her expression did
not soften.
Viktor Hale looked around the room carefully. His gaze moved from the jacket to the dress, from Maverick to Penelope, then finally to Amy.
“You are very calm,” he said.
Amy met his eyes.
“I had time to prepare.”
Maverick froze.
The room changed.
Clara slowly turned toward Amy.
“Prepare?”
Amy reached into the small white clutch hanging from her wrist and removed a folded envelope.
Maverick stared at it.
“No,” he whispered.
Amy’s father looked at her. “Amy?”
She handed the envelope to Viktor.
“Since everyone is here,” Amy said, “we may as well discuss why Maverick really needed this wedding to happen today.”
Maverick lunged forward.
“Don’t!”
Amy’s father grabbed him by the arm and shoved him back.
Viktor opened the envelope.
Inside were printed bank transfers. Messages. Screenshots. Contract pages.
As he read, his face hardened.
Amy spoke evenly.
“Three months ago, I found out Maverick was using my name to secure investor trust for his company. He told people my inheritance would be merged into his business after the wedding. He forged preliminary documents. He promised shares he did not own. He used my family name, my father’s reputation, and Viktor’s signature as leverage.”
Mrs. Bennett looked sick.
“That’s impossible.”
Amy turned to her.
“I wanted it to be impossible too.”
Maverick shouted, “She’s lying!”
Amy removed another paper from her clutch.
“Then explain this.”
Clara took it.
Her face changed.
“It’s his signature,” she said.
Maverick glared at Penelope.
“You told her?”
Penelope’s crying stopped.
Every eye turned toward her.
Amy looked at her old friend.
“No,” Amy said. “Penelope didn’t tell me.”
Penelope stared.
Amy continued, “Penelope was part of it.”
The room erupted.
Penelope shook her head wildly. “No. No, I wasn’t.”
Amy opened her phone and played an audio recording.
Maverick’s voice filled the room.
“After the wedding, Amy won’t have a choice. Once the accounts are connected, we move the money. Penelope, you handle the hotel situation if she suspects anything.”
Then Penelope’s voice followed.
“She trusts me. She always has.”
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