Fade to Silence

Summary

My mother was dying. I begged my fiancé, Ryan, to advance part of our wedding fund for her surgery.

He turned around and got engaged to Serena.

In my deepest despair, my childhood friend, Richard Blackwood, knelt before me in the hospital, proposed, and handed me a check for a million dollars.

I accepted without hesitation, rushing to schedule my mother's operation. But in the end, she never made it off the operating table. Drowned in grief, I let Richard handle all the funeral arrangements.

Our wedding went on as planned.