The next day, Vincent stood at the civil affairs bureau and received a marriage certificate with a woman he could barely be called familiar with. The following day, a grand wedding was held, and by the third day, Karl was released, taking over the position of the former chief prosecutor, rising from deputy to chief.
Three days later, when he met his girl again, everything had changed; she had become his sister-in-law, and he had become her Vincent.
What followed was endless pain in Boston. They met as strangers; he watched helplessly as she transformed from an innocent girl into a cold, hardened woman covered in thorns. He felt heartbroken and distressed, but it was already too late. She hated him, deeply and profoundly.
It wasn't just the heartache of being abandoned by him; it was also the scorn from Grace Lancaster and Doreen Lancaster after he left her that was the most lethal, for he had once been her only source of pride before them.
