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I’d secretly dated Antonio Kaufman, my brother’s best friend, for seven years.

I always believed a proposal was inevitable.

Then I discovered he was waiting for his first love to return.

I was a placeholder, a convenient means to an end.

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I followed Antonio to a bar, eavesdropping on his conversation with friends.

“Antonio, now that your true love is back, what about Grace?” one asked.

Antonio’s silence hung heavy in the air.

Another man snickered, “Freddy warned us off his sis… He wouldn’t let anyone hurt her.”

It was common knowledge.

“Alicia dumped me. I was just trying to get back at her,” Antonio finally said, his voice so cold it felt like a stranger’s.

party, Antonio

he shoved me aside, chasing after

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stumbled into a table, scalding myself and ruining

humiliated and hurting, I marched into Antonio’s study.

I’d been forbidden to enter in

on his desk, was a photo of him

my brother overseas. “About your suggestion of an arranged marriage, I’ve reconsidered. I’m in!”

you alright?” Freddy’s voice was laced with worry.

tone. “Fine. I’ve just been thinking.

will you be back? You

just do it. The sooner I agree, the sooner the company’s problems are

I heard his first love is back. Invite him to the wedding.” Freddy’s

Alicia. That explained Antonio’s insistence on

voice. “We are not

the door unlock, I quickly said goodbye to Freddy and ended

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