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…”

put this straw ring on my ring

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

but I could feel he really didn’t want

leave me.

was about to run away. But he

my family gets rich again,

this ring to me. I will let

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

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point, I was pretty sure I had let

it wasn’t easy for me to

the day of his wedding, I still held out the last shred of hope for

wanted to be done with him,

for all.

and stared at that ring. He

went round, his

jaw and splashed onto the shabby

my hands,

m

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

slowly wiped the remaining

was to me. Before she died, her last wish was to see us finally get married.

grudges from our fathers‘ generation and that what I have heard and seen is not

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then tell me, what is

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you gave them to Celia without a second thought. Yet, you called me vicious and bullying a

words out, all I could see