After the wife's ex-husband abandons their mother and daughter, the daughter marries, the wife lets the ex-husband marry, I will leave completely

Seven days before my daughter’s wedding, Evelyn, my wife, suddenly turned to me.

"Richard," she said, "Chloe's wedding day, maybe you shouldn't go."

I was holding the speech I’d painstakingly copied from the internet, getting ready to practice it for the reception.

Now, I was being told I couldn't even attend my own daughter's wedding.

"Why?" I asked, my voice laced with disbelief.

Evelyn replied, "Marcus is back in the States. He says he wants to walk his biological daughter down the aisle."

Just then, Chloe walked over, chiming in.