Chapter 90

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After countless sleepless nights, I surprisingly caught some solid z's on the flight.

In my dreams, Antonio's face kept showing up, like he was just waiting for me there.

Back when we were just seven, we used to play games together.

He'd tell me he was the groom, and I was the prettiest bride.

When we turned eighteen, we made that game real.

He vowed to hustle hard and give me a grand wedding.

But when did things start to fall apart between us?

Did it start after Stella showed up, or was it before that?

I couldn't even remember it anymore.

Antonio had been the center of my world for as long as I could remember.

No matter how much I tried to stay cool and get over him, it felt like my insides were being torn apart.

Once I landed, I didn't even have the guts to turn on my phone.

"Grace!"

My mom was waving at me, standing out in a sea of

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foreigners.

It had been ages since we last saw each other.

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She wasn't the same woman I remembered, sitting on the couch, crying, waiting for my dad to come home.

She was older, but she exuded more charm than before.

"You've grown so much," she said, her voice filled with wonder.

My mom kept touching my face, saying sorry over and over again.

I just let go and hugged her tight.

I said, "Mom, I'm not holding it against you.

"You said I should love myself first before seeking love from others."

mom and I both made the

Antonio's been calling non-stop," my mom

1. me.

tried to dry my tears, but

all the way," she said, supporting me no

phone was blowing up with

up on the

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coming in.

his voice laden with stress, like he was holding

heard Antonio this

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puzzled. With Stella back in the picture,

"Grace, have

true.

with Stella. I promise you. She's just like a

heartbroken. I can see it in the tears you've left on my journal pages. I've been remiss, but it

feeling kind of

get that you think you're obligated to stay with me, but that's why I'm walking away. It's to set us both free, to

happy with

"Why the tears?"

shining

brilliant, the most vivid chapter

from his memory that I put in the work to get

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he was living it up with Stella, soaking in the glory days, I

the one groveling to business associates, doing whatever it took to

one downing drinks till I was senseless, so wasted I nearly

that

the

tattooed on his chest, lying to me that it was a reminder

symbol to keep him

yearned to keep

chance to reclaim his true

he miss

"Grace, you ditched the wedding to teach me a lesson, didn't you? You've got it bad for me, so much that my recent lack of attention stung,

slide.

dumbfounded, not knowing how

in the day, when I was

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