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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

I should love myself first before seeking love

and

choice.

been calling non–stop,”

me.

to dry my tears, but hers started flowing instead.

you all the way,” she said, supporting me

up with calls and messages from

up on the latest,

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coming in.

he said, his voice laden with stress, like he was

this worked

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why

you

true.

going on with Stella. I promise

sister to

I can see it in the tears you’ve left on my

kind

I’m walking away. It’s to

happy with

“Why the tears?”

moment, the highlight of his darkest days.

most vivid chapter

period from his memory that I put in the work to get him back

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the glory days, I was

was the one groveling to business associates, doing whatever it took to keep us afloat.

one downing drinks till I was

of that registered with

was the heady, fantastical

to me that it

driven.

truly yearned to keep alive was his fiery

to reclaim his true

he miss me

bad for me, so much that my recent lack of

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