Chapter66

I’d secretly dated Antonio Kaufman, my brother’s best friend, for seven years.

I always believed a proposal was inevitable.

Then I discovered he was waiting for his first love to return.

I was a placeholder, a convenient means to an end.

I followed Antonio to a bar, eavesdropping on hist conversation with friends.

“Antonio, now that your true love is back, what about Grace?” one asked.

Antonio’s silence hung heavy in the air.

Another man snickered, “Freddy warned us off his sis… He wouldn’t let anyone hurt her.”

It was common knowledge..

“Alicia dumped me. I was just trying to get back at her,” Antonio finally said, his voice so cold it felt like a stranger’s.

Later, at Alicia Hogan’s welcome–back party, Antonio

with

tears, he shoved me aside,

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a table, scalding myself and ruining my dress.

hurting, I

to enter in seven

his desk, was a photo of him

me, I called my brother overseas. “About your suggestion of an arranged marriage, I’ve reconsidered.

alright?” Freddy’s voice was laced

I’ve just been thinking. It’s

will you be

agree, the sooner the company’s problems are solved.

way, are you still in touch with Antonio? I heard his first love is back. Invite

he knew about Alicia. That explained Antonio’s insistence on keeping our relationship secret.

my voice. “We are

said goodbye to Freddy and

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