F1 Champion's Perfect Crash: When Love Takes The Final Turn novel Chapter 20

When Jacob proposed, I believed I'd finally found my escape from a life of uncertainty.

His world was so different from mine - polished, privileged, promising everything I'd never known.

We were engaged for years, a status that felt more like a holding pattern than a commitment.

His family made it abundantly clear: I wasn't their first choice.

My ordinary background was a stain on their pristine social canvas.

I was the scholarship kid, the outsider who'd somehow caught their son's attention.

Jacob was good at making promises.

He'd sweep me into grand gestures, talk about our future with such conviction that I almost believed we were invincible.

"We'll prove them wrong," he'd say, kissing me with a passion that made me forget their disapproving glances.

Finding my biological father was supposed to be a turning point.

A connection I'd always craved. Martin Lopez - a name that came with a complicated backstory and a stepsister, Bella Lopez.

She seemed perfect at first: polished, welcoming, everything I thought I wanted to be.

My father's last words echoed in my mind: "I want to be there when you say 'I do'." But fate had other plans.