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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

I should love myself first before seeking

years apart, my mom and I both

choice.

Antonio’s been calling non–stop,”

me.

my tears, but hers started flowing instead.

I’m with you all the way,”

with

I could even catch up on the latest, another

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coming in.

his voice laden with stress, like he was holding the whole

never heard Antonio this worked up before.

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puzzled. With Stella back in the picture, why was he still worried about me,

“Grace, have you read my

true.

going on with Stella. I promise you. She’s just

sister

be heartbroken. I can see it in the tears you’ve left on my journal pages. I’ve been remiss, but it was never my

kind of

why I’m walking away. It’s to set us both free, to

happy

“Why the tears?”

his shining moment, the

the most vivid chapter of his

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

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glory days, I was the one emptying my bank account to cover his mistakes.

one groveling to business associates, doing whatever it took to

till I was

that registered with him.

was the heady, fantastical ride Stella offered him.

had Stella’s name tattooed on his chest, lying to me that it was a reminder of the

driven.

yearned to keep alive was

had the chance to reclaim

he miss

it bad for me, so much that my recent lack of attention stung, and this was your way of

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