Your Devotion Came Too Late

At my birthday gala, I wanted to invite my fiancé Julian to open the first dance. Instead, I overheard him talking to his best friend.

""You obviously want to ride Sarah's family name to the top. So why have you humiliated her at her own birthday party five years running? Watching those socialites mock her as a lovesick fool—doesn't that bother you at all?""

""It does."" Julian swirled his whiskey on the rocks. ""But what can I do? I lost a bet to Cynthia.""

""I promised to let Sarah be embarrassed at her birthday gala six years in a row.