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

here. Keep it, as if we were

was incoherent, but I could feel

leave me.

cried, he turned around and was about to run

If my family gets rich again, you’ll come back to me, will you?”

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

kid at the time, but somehow I wanted to be with Antonio to my

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

him for years, so it wasn’t easy for me

of his wedding, I still held out the last shred

knew that I wanted to be done with

for all.

head and stared at that ring. He also remembered

went round, his

jaw and splashed onto the shabby straw

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

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me this time? I swear I will stop

slowly wiped the remaining tears from his

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

pay her back? You say that those are old grudges from our fathers‘ generation and that what I have

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me, what is the

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slept with her anyway. The things you promised me, you gave

I poured all those words out, all I could see from his face