Chapter 4: Mistake
The day blurred for Ella.
Orders came and went, her hands moved on autopilot, and she responded to customers with the same polite smile she always did—but her mind was elsewhere.
Married?
She kept going back to the marriage certificate Nicholas Carter had handed her. No matter how many times she tried to make sense of it, her mind refused to accept it.
She had spent the last few years barely surviving. Between juggling multiple jobs, struggling to pay rent, and covering her mother’s hospital bills, marriage had never once crossed her mind. Let alone a marriage to a billionaire she didn’t even remember.
It had to be a mistake.
A cruel joke.
But deep down, she knew it wasn’t.
The name on the paper was hers. The date matched up with her trip to Vegas two years ago. And the man she had met today—Nicholas—he wasn’t the kind of person who made mistakes. He had come to her because he knew this was real.