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His words were like needles to my heart.

Clutching my chest, I realized that Antonio wasn’t worth my love.

He never truly trusted me, choosing to believe someone who should never have had his ear.

Celia gave me a smug look, then clung to Antonio’s sleeve pitifully. “I took some of Dad’s attention. It’s fine if Grace hates me for it. What others think doesn’t matter, as long as you understand me, Antonio.”

She ended with a sweet smile, and Antonio’s eyes softened.

He playfully tapped her nose and helped her up.

Looking at me, disappointed, he said, “Grace, you’ve lost someone you loved. You know how it feels. Celia has cancer and time’s ticking. Can’t you grant her this one wish?”

His words broke my heart again. I managed a bitter smile.

How could Antonio mention my loss so coolly?

His mother and mine had once been best friends.

faced bankruptcy, it was my mother

day while caring

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him to exercise, cooked medicinal meals,

health.

me, he probably would’ve begged my mother to be his

died alone in a foreign country, he cried even

glared at Celia and her mother with pure hatred at my mother’s

less than ten years later, Antonio told me it was just drama between

thought I’d lash out at him in anger, but after all that letdown, I felt

We’re

that. I’ll be with Celia for her last days, and come back

he ignored the protests of my friends and walked

there, watching them leave, and suddenly

me a big bouquet of red roses, his face. flushed.

isn’t. Grace, I’ll never marry anyone but you,” he

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feelings for me. I truly believed we would always

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