My Childhood Sweetheart Breaks the Engagement, and I Marry His Family’s Bastard Instead

Everyone knew I was the woman Mr. Sterling, the family patriarch, had personally chosen for an arranged marriage. He’d decreed that whoever I married would be the one to inherit the vast Hayes fortune.

At the engagement party, I wore my custom-made gown, ready to step onto the stage and announce the union between the Hayes and Peterson families.

But my fiancé, Derek Hayes, had Tiffany Peterson, my adopted sister, clasped firmly by the hand. He pulled her into the center of the crowd, standing shoulder to shoulder with her.