CHAPTER TEN – IT WAS AN ACCIDENT

Whose adoring gaze and reassuring caresses had banished every inkling of doubt clawing at Charlotte's consciousness regarding their path ahead? The harsh bubble of a scoff burst past Charlotte's lips before she could rein it in, bitter and disbelieving all at once. "Wow...I don't even know who you are anymore." Alexander's jaw took on a mutinous set, as though steeling himself against her brazen accusation. Without another word, he pivoted on his highly-polished oxfords and started towards the church's arched double-door exit with an unmistakable sense of purpose. "Alexander? Alexander!" The frantic edge in Charlotte's tone did nothing to halt her new husband's inexorable departure. Even as her voice ricocheted off the vaulted ceiling as a pained whiplash, he continued on with robotic indifference. It was like a dam bursting within her breast. After all the petty squabbling and emotional anguish she'd endured in the lead up to this moment, Charlotte simply could not accept this en