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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

saying sorry over and over again.

and hugged her tight.

I’m not holding it against

love myself first

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

you all the way,” she said, supporting

blowing up with calls and messages

I could even catch up on the

with stress, like he was holding the whole world on his

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Antonio this worked

in the picture, why was he still worried about me,

have you read my

nothing going on with Stella. I promise you. She’s just like a sister to me.

you’ve left on my journal pages. I’ve been remiss, but it

was feeling kind of spaced

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

happy

“Why the tears?”

was his shining moment,

was the most brilliant, the most vivid chapter

I put in the work to get him back on top.

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

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associates, doing whatever it took to

one downing drinks till was senseless, so wasted! nearly lost our baby.

that registered with

heady, fantastical

was

to keep alive was his

the chance to reclaim his

did he miss me now?

for me, so much that my recent lack of

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