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…”

straw ring on my ring

way here. Keep it, as if we were already married,

feel he

leave me.

and was about to run away. But he rushed back

rich again, you’ll come back to me, will you?”

if you don’t wanna marry me anymore, you can return this ring to me. I will let you go, even if it will hurt

a kid at the time, but somehow I wanted to be with Antonio to my last breath.

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

love with him for years, so it wasn’t easy for me to

still held out

I wanted to be done with him, once

for all.

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

eyes went round, his lips shivering.

trickled down his thin jaw and splashed onto the shabby straw

quickly wiped the tears from it and nervously clutched my hands,

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me this time? I swear I will stop seeing Celia from

hand and slowly wiped the remaining tears from his

so good to you. She was kinder to you than she was to me. Before she

old grudges from our

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tell me, what

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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

those words out, all I could