Broken Vows by Tessa Montgomery

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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…”

he put this straw

this ring on my way here. Keep it, as if we were already married, OK? Will you

I could feel he really

leave me.

and was about to run away.

gets rich again, you’ll come back

anymore, you can return this ring to me.

time, but somehow I

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this point, I was pretty sure

him for years, so it

the day of his wedding, I still held out

I knew that I wanted to be done with him,

for all.

stared at that ring. He also remembered his

eyes went round,

thin jaw and splashed onto

quickly wiped the tears from it and nervously clutched my hands, looking like a little boy afraid of being

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will you forgive me this time? I swear I will stop seeing Celia

and slowly wiped the remaining tears from

good to you. She was kinder to you than she was to me. Before she died, her last wish was to see us finally get married.

did you pay her back? You say that those are old grudges from our

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what is the

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things you promised me, you gave them to

words out, all I could see from his face was