Broken Vows by Tessa Montgomery

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Ten years. Ten years we’d been together, and finally, my boyfriend had proposed.

I had envisioned a future filled with joy, a future shattered the moment I saw him– my Antonio Kaufman — embracing Stella Parrish, his first lolve, in the very home we were to share.

“I’ll always love you. If you say yes, I’ll marry you right away,” Antonio whispered to Stella.

The agony was a physical blow.

His betrayal wasn’t a recent event; it stretched back years.

Despair, raw and suffocating, consumed me.

I had to end this.

Inside, their fervent kiss echoed, each sound a chilling hammer blow to my heart.

I flung Antonio’s engagement ring into the trash and dialed my mother’s international number.

“Mom,” I choked out, biting my lip to stifle the tremor in my voice, “Antonio cheated on me. I’m not marrying him.”

My mother’s voice was bright with something that sounded suspiciously like relief. “I’ll book your ticket right away. You know I’ve always wanted you close.”

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a strangled

rush into marriage and children. Focus on your career. Whatever you

here

hours ago, I’d believed Antonio was a

his success, he’d remained scandal–free until tonight, until Stella appeared

invite

idea why she’d

he saw her, Antonio had panicked, dropping

abandoned me at the

why Stella? She’d been cruel, taking everything from me for over two

the last person I’d ever

his face alight with joy, extinguished any

a morbid curiosity, I’d activated the home surveillance system.

my pajamas, lay

warming milk

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for your loneliness. Do you

bent to massage her feet.

upset me on purpose? You know I hate Grace the most.” Stella continued,

then pulled her close, their lips meeting in a

vision, streaming down my

I

it was for the wasted

time I’d tried to initiate intimacy, Antonio had coldly