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.

so much,” she said, her voice filled with wonder.

saying sorry over and

go and

“Mom, I’m not holding it

I should love myself first before seeking

mom and I both made the same choice. “Grace, Antonio’s been calling non–stop,” my mom warned me. She tried to dry my tears, but hers started flowing

you all the way,” she

up with calls and messages

catch up on the

stress, like he was holding the whole world on his shoulders.

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never heard Antonio this

back in the picture, why was he

have you read my

with Stella. I promise you. She’s just

you’ve left on my journal pages. I’ve been remiss, but it was never my

kind of spaced out.

obligated to stay with me, but that’s why I’m walking away. It’s to set us both free, to

you happy with

“Why the tears?”

his shining moment, the highlight

most vivid

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

was living it up with Stella, soaking in the glory days, I was the one emptying my bank account to cover his mistakes.

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the one groveling to business associates, doing

downing drinks till was senseless, so wasted! nearly

that registered with

heady, fantastical ride Stella offered

had Stella’s name tattooed on his chest, lying to me that it was a reminder

truly yearned to keep alive was his fiery

to

did he miss me now?

you? You’ve got it bad for me, so much that