Broken Vows by Tessa Montgomery

Chapter40

That night, Antonio came to me. I thought he wanted to learn more about the truth from me, since he realized that Celia had been lying to him.

But I was wrong. He said, “Grace, Celia is innocent. Will you drop the case?”

I couldn’t help but laugh.

I was impressed. Antonio still trusted her after all that had happened.

But, all of a sudden, I felt bad when I saw him looking so haggard.

After the Kaufman Group survived from going bankrupt, Antonio was never in a low spirit again. At least, that was what I had remembered of him.

I rubbed the straw ring in my pocket and changed the topic.

“When did it start? I mean you and her.”

There was a trace of guilt on his face. Then, he subconsciously denied it.

I knew he would deny it. So, I showed him the footage of them kissing from a few years ago.

His face changed color as he saw it.

“Grace, I can explain it. It’s not like what you think…”

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I took out the straw ring from my pocket, deadpan. I grabbed his hand and placed that small ring on his palm.

?While the Kaufmans were going through their darkest days, countless debt collectors were after them. Antonio was just a kid at the time, but he was not spared.

?Debt collectors would block the door of his rental home. They would frighten him and force him to tell them where his parents were.

After he managed to get away from them, I was the first person he would come to.

He cried and said, “Grace, my family is broke now. I can’t provide you with a good life after we grow up…”

this straw ring on my

here. Keep it, as if we were already married, OK?

feel he really didn’t want to

leave me.

was about to run away. But

family gets rich again, you’ll come back to me, will

ring to me. I will let you go, even if it will hurt

but somehow I wanted to be with Antonio

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to this point, I was pretty sure I had let go of

love with him for years, so it

wedding, I still held out the last shred of hope

now, I knew that I wanted to

for all.

his head and stared at that ring. He also remembered his promise to me

round, his

down his thin jaw and splashed

clutched my hands, looking like a little boy afraid

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at me and begged, “Grace, will you forgive me this time? I swear

hand and slowly wiped the remaining

mom was so good to you. She was kinder to you than she was to me. Before she died, her last wish was to see

say that those are old grudges from our fathers‘ generation and that what I have

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was my Dad’s mistress, but you slept with her anyway. The things you promised me, you gave them to Celia without a second thought. Yet, you called me vicious and bullying a dying person!”

all those words out, all I could see from his face was guilt