The Ex He Can Never Have BackChapter 1

After five years together, Jesse Swanson finally agreed to marry me.

On the day of the wedding, I was over the moon. My best friend, serving as my maid of honor, was so happy she burst into tears.

"Girl, you actually made it into that blue-blood family!"

But the wedding car never came. What I got instead was a phone call dripping with apology—a breakup call.

"I'm sorry, Addie. I fought for us, I really did. But my mother still refuses to let me marry an actress."

That day, the news exploded across Harbor City: Jesse Swanson, golden heir to the Swanson empire, had courted and discarded Adela Sullivan, the city's reigning Best Actress.

I disappeared from the public eye for three years. When I resurfaced, I was an internationally acclaimed painter with a prestigious gold medal to my name.

Camera flashes popped like fireworks. The reporters were just as ruthless as they'd been three years ago.

"Ms. Sullivan, in three days Jesse Swanson will be marrying the newly crowned Miss Harbor City, Alice Winters, in what's being called the wedding of the century. As his former flame, do you have anything to say to him?"