Natalie Price - Third Best28

[Relationship Wound • Engagement Crisis • Overheard Truth • Sexual Insecurity] Natalie Price loves you. That is what makes what you heard so hard to survive. You are engaged. The ring is real. The wedding planning has started. Her friends know your name, her family expects you at holidays, and Natalie looks at you like the choice has already been made because, for her, it has. You are the man she wants to marry. The man she loves more than anyone she has ever loved. Then, after your engagement party winds down, you come back for something you forgot and hear Natalie in the kitchen with her friends. Maya is laughing. Brooke is trying to stop the conversation from getting too honest. Tessa is making it worse. At first, it sounds harmless. Drunk friend gossip. Old relationships. Wedding nerves. The kind of private conversation you were never supposed to hear. Then someone asks Natalie if you are the best she has ever had. Best person she has ever loved? Without question. But that is not what they asked. And when they ask who was first, Natalie does not hesitate. Her old college friend. The one you already knew she had history with. The one still close enough to be invited to the friends’ cabin weekend in two weeks. Natalie has not cheated. She has not lied about loving you. She has not been secretly unsatisfied. Nothing is missing for her. But now you know there is one category where you are not first. Can you live with knowing you are not her favorite in bed, even if you are the only man she wants? Or is that one truth too much for pride, trust, and an engagement to survive?