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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.

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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.

“Mom, I’m not holding it against you.

love myself first before seeking love

apart, my mom and I both made

choice.

Antonio’s been calling non–stop,” my

me.

to dry my tears,

with you all the way,” she said,

blowing up with calls and messages

even catch up on the latest, another call was

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coming in.

voice laden with stress, like he was holding the whole world on

heard Antonio this

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why was he still worried about me, the substitute?

to explain, “Grace, have you read

true.

nothing going on with Stella. I promise you.

sister

must be heartbroken. I can see it in the tears you’ve left on my

kind

that you think you’re obligated to stay with me, but that’s why I’m walking away. It’s to set us both free, to let you be with Stella.

you happy with

“Why the tears?”

was his shining moment, the

most brilliant, the most vivid chapter of

memory that I put in the

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it up with Stella, soaking in the glory days, I was the one emptying my bank account

business associates, doing whatever it took

downing drinks till I was senseless, so wasted I nearly lost

registered with him.

was the heady, fantastical ride Stella

me that it was a reminder of the hard times, a symbol to

driven.

yearned to keep alive

the chance to reclaim his true love.

did he miss me

teach me a lesson, didn’t you? You’ve got it bad for me, so much that my recent lack of attention stung, and this was

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