Broken Vows by Tessa Montgomery

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After countless sleepless nights, surprisingly caught some solid z’s on the flight.

In my dreams, Antonio’s face kept showing up, like he was just waiting for me there.

Back when we were just seven, we used to play games together.

He’d tell me he was the groom, and I was the prettiest bride.

When we turned eighteen, we made that game real.

He vowed to hustle hard and give me a grand wedding.

But when did things start to fall apart between us?

Did it start after Stella showed up, or was it before that?

I couldn’t even remember it anymore.

Antonio had been the center of my world for as long as I could remember.

No matter how much I tried to stay cool and get over him, it felt like my insides were being torn apart.

Once I landed, I didn’t even have the guts to turn on my phone.

‘Grace!”

My mom was waving at me, standing out in a sea of foreigners.

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It had been ages since we last saw each other.

She wasn’t the same woman I remembered, sitting on the couch, crying, waiting for my dad to come home.

She was older, but she exuded more charm than before.

said, her voice

saying sorry over and over

and

I’m not holding it against

first before seeking love from others.”

both made the same choice. “Grace, Antonio’s been calling non–stop,” my mom warned me. She tried to dry my

you all the way,”

phone was blowing up with calls and messages from

even catch up on the latest, another call was

voice laden with stress, like he was holding the whole world on

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this

was puzzled. With Stella back in the picture, why was

explain, “Grace, have you read my journal? It’s

Stella. I promise you. She’s just like

I can see it in the tears you’ve left on my journal pages. I’ve been remiss, but it was never

kind of spaced out.

but that’s why I’m walking away. It’s to set us both

happy

“Why the tears?”

his shining moment, the

the most brilliant, the most vivid chapter

from his memory that I put in the work to get him back on

the glory days, I was the one emptying my

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one groveling to business associates, doing whatever it

was the one downing drinks till was senseless, so wasted!

registered with him.

he held onto was the heady, fantastical

lying to me that it was a reminder of the hard

yearned to keep alive was his

to reclaim his

miss me

said, “Grace, you ditched the wedding to teach me a lesson, didn’t you? You’ve got it bad for me, so much that my recent lack of attention stung, and this was your way