I Don’t Need Your Fake Love by Melandia

Chapter 47

Grace’s POV

My fiance, who I will marry in a few weeks, is with another

woman.

While I’m right here, trying to weave through my asthma attack, he’s right there dancing with her.

His eyes are glued to her, failing to spare me a single glance, even though my chest is heaving up and down and I can barely breathe.

I’ve been in love with Antonio for eight years now. And for a while it felt like he was in love with me. But everything changed when that woman showed up.

Now, it seems like I barely exist to him.

Only when their dance is finished does he go back to me. But even then, he just leaves to go home with me. I get in the car, and once I open the glove box, I find a diamond ring.

“What is this?” I ask.

He immediately snatches it away from my grasp. “It’s not for

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I nod, keeping all my emotions at bay until he reaches the corner of the road. “Pull up over here, please.”

“What for?” he asks, but I don’t answer him. I just head to the shop in the distance.

A few months ago, I decided to have a wedding dress custom–made for me. But now, I don’t think I have any use for it. I just need to have the whole thing canceled and destroyed.

But just as I walk into the shop, Antonio follows me.

He shoves my coat on my face, shouting, “Why do you always leave your stuff, Grace? I’m tired of picking up after you.”

Antonio is a neat freak. He doesn’t like when I leave some of my stuff in his car.

But I look at the coat he tries to give me, and I notice something. “That’s not my coat.”

His irritation vanishes at once. He picks it up, his expression now considerably softer than when we started talking.

I know that it’s because the coat belongs to Cecilia Smith.

Every time she leaves something in his car, it only leads to a

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it doesn’t lead to anything at all. I don’t feel the need to

smile at the lady. “HI, I’m

says. “Your wedding dress and the suit are both done. You can try them on now. I can reserve a showroom for both

mouth to say no, but Antonio is already

choice but to try on my dress.

to look at myself in the mirror. Antonio is there, watching

don’t look

and hand her my phone. “Can

snap a picture. But just as the lady is

for Cecilia.

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without walking away, his mood already visibly improved. “Hello. Is everything okay?”

if you can just

on my way” he says.

just kiss you right now!” she says before

leaves, still in his suit. I hear his car roaring away. My heart breaks. I take a deep breath and reach for the scissors in the corner, tearing a huge chunk off

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be exact. I’ve already gone home alone, and that’s the

me a text.

the bar,” it reads.

the first time Antonio took the time to tell me

and

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my way out to dumb my trash, I

phone broken or something?”

upset. It’s because I used to call him nonstop when he

around like he’s expecting to see something. Then, he notices my wall. “Hold on. We used to have a picture here.

bag on the floor. I open my mouth to tell him that I’ve

I’m going to see

and come back. I’m tired, since I haven’t eaten dinner or breakfast, so I grab the toast after I wash my hands.

that he’s watching

“Why do you need to shove it all in

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shakes it into the bin. I watch him, mouth agape. The audacity is

have my full breakfast

rules. You didn’t even ask me before you

he puts on his jacket and storms