Her Place in His Heart by Isabella Reed

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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.

it was my mother who stepped

managing everything during the day while caring for sickly

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boy. My mother took him to exercise, cooked medicinal meals, and

health.

hadn’t been so set on marrying me, he

alone in a

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

ten years later, Antonio told me it

anger, but after all that letdown, I

what you want. We’re

“Don’t say that. I’ll be with Celia for her last days, and come back to

my friends and walked away

stood there, watching them leave, and suddenly remembered

of red roses, his face.

but my love isn’t. Grace, I’ll never marry anyone but you,” he said with

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doubted Antonio’s feelings for me. I truly believed we