I then broke down and told her everything. I left out details, like the fact we'd done anal, but I didn't omit any bouts of s*x.
She broke down crying harder than I'd ever seen her cry before. "I guess our wedding is off then," she said as I started crying harder, the sobs threatening to rip my chest apart. "I can't be with someone I can't trust and I obviously can't trust him. And here I thought he loved me!"
Heidi took Shelby aside and talked to her for almost an hour as I sobbed away an hour in the den. Soon Heidi and Shelby came back in and Shelby hugged me tight and told me everything would be alright. Heidi had told her the things she'd told me and she understood that my parents' treatment of Stevie was a big factor in all of this.
"I just don't know if I can marry someone when I
