Marco was just a poor guy from a rural village, while I was a pampered, well-off young lady.
Ever since we started dating, I had hidden most of my family's wealth to protect his fragile ego, only showing him a small portion of it.
Even with that, his family had been plotting to take everything from me. I didn't even want to imagine what would have happened if, in a moment of foolishness, I had revealed my family's full financial situation. Who knows what dirty tricks they might have used, just like you read about online.
Considering his family's circumstances, my parents had only asked for a symbolic dowry of 80 thousand dollars, a gesture of good fortune. But they had prepared a dowry worth millions of dollars for me.
Originally, I had planned to surprise Marco with the dowry during the engagement ceremony. Little did I expect that before I could give him that surprise, I would be shocked myself.
Fine.
Did you want to threaten me into going through with the engagement? Just as you wished.
I handed my phone, with the recording, to my cousin Shane Warner, instructing him to make sure everything was arranged properly.