Chapter 60

After countless sleepless nights, I 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

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foreigners.

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.

"You've grown so much," she said, her voice filled with wonder.

My mom kept touching my face, saying sorry over and over again.

I just let go and hugged her tight.

I said, "Mom, I'm not holding it against you.

love myself first before seeking love

apart, my mom and

Antonio's been calling non-stop," my

1. me.

dry my tears, but hers started flowing

matter what you choose, I'm with you all the way," she

blowing up with calls and messages

even catch up

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coming in.

voice laden with stress,

world on his

never heard Antonio

Tw

Stella back in the picture, why

to explain, "Grace, have

true.

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

can see it in the tears you've left on my journal pages. I've been remiss, but it

feeling kind of

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

happy with

"Why the tears?"

Antonio's diary, Stella was his shining moment, the highlight

the most vivid chapter of

memory that I put in the work to get

top.

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up with Stella, soaking

was the one emptying my bank account

mistakes.

associates, doing

the one downing drinks till I was senseless,

of that registered with

the

chest, lying to me that it was

a symbol

driven.

truly yearned to keep

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