Broken Vows by Tessa Montgomery

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The pills were different from what I usually took.

Although I studied obstetrics, I could still tell the difference.

Unless I was still groggy from sleep, I wouldn’t have mixed them up.

The bottle was on the bedside table.

Usually, no one else but Antonio would enter my room.

The answer was clear.

My hand holding the pills started shaking uncontrollably.

In the end, I collapsed to the floor with a thud.

“It’s impossible…”

I desperately tried to comfort myself, trying to believe in Antonio.

After all, we had truly been in love for so many years.

At our best, he’d protected me from a car accident, shielding me with his body just to keep me safe.

He said, “Grace, you mean more to me than anything, event more than myself. I can’t lose you.”

That day, I cried until I could barely breathe, vowing to love him forever.

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Today, I was crying just as hard, but now I was searching for a reason to still believe in him.

Antonio.

Please, don’t let it be you…

It wasn’t until the third day that I finally asked Chloe.

can’t just take it while pregnant. It

unable to hear anything

in Antonio’s eyes when he left that day.

I finally understood.

of hope for Antonio shattered completely.

Years of love.

couldn’t withstand the

and for all.

come back on the third

daze, staring at nothing as the day faded into night,

non–stop. But I didn’t answer.

Πρ

out of battery and shut off, leaving in

eighth was my birthday. I sat outside the operating

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finally calling me back? Are you still mad? I’ve been so busy. I couldn’t get away.”

you understand that? You keep ignoring my calls and messages. What do you want me

as ever

to hear it.

and detachment,

remember

pause,

wiped

don’t ever need to remember again. Antonio, when you get back, let’s get a

on from the other side, so long I thought he had hung

his voice finally

have to be so extreme?

Grace, I’ll come back when you learn how to

forced a

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the chat history and photos

account, sending me messages over

to their recent

nine out of ten overtime nights had been

meals for him, waiting for him to come home

neck, I had convinced myself they were just mosquito bites.

had trusted