I was stunned. David? The man who had just pledged his life to my sister, who had looked at her with such undeniable love in his eyes? My mind raced, grasping for answers, for anything that could make sense of the fear in my father’s eyes.

“David is not who he says he is,” Dad continued, each word feeling like a blow. “Years ago, before he even met Emily, he was involved in something… dangerous. There were people after him, people who wouldn’t think twice about using his loved ones to get to him.”