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.

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

mom kept touching my face, saying sorry over

go and hugged her

not

love myself first before seeking love from

my 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

the way,”

blowing up with calls and messages from Antonio.

the

he was holding the

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heard Antonio this worked up

picture, why was he still worried about me, the

have you read

you. She’s just like a sister to me.

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

kind of spaced out.

that’s why I’m walking away. It’s

happy with

“Why the tears?”

shining moment,

brilliant, the most vivid chapter of

memory that I put in the work to get him back

glory days, I was the one emptying my bank account to

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to business associates, doing whatever it took

the one downing drinks till was

of that registered with

held onto was the heady, fantastical ride

it was a reminder of

truly yearned to keep

the chance to reclaim his

miss me now?

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 of