I Don’t Need Your Fake Love by Melandia

Chapter 139

After countless sleepless nights, I surprisingly caught some solid Zs 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 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

years apart, my mom and I both made the same

non–stop,” my mom warned

tried to dry my tears, but

you choose, I’m with you all the way,” she said, supporting me

phone was blowing up with calls and

catch up on the latest,

like he was holding the whole world on his shoulders.

this worked up before.

in the picture, why was he still worried about me, the substitute?

you

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nothing going on with Stella. I promise you. She’s just like a sister

to me.

tears you’ve left on my journal pages. I’ve been remiss,

feeling kind of spaced out.

me, but that’s why I’m walking away. It’s to set us both free, to let

happy with

“Why the tears?”

moment, the highlight of his darkest

brilliant, the most vivid chapter of

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

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

to business associates, doing whatever

till I was senseless, so wasted I

registered

heady, fantastical ride

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tattooed on his chest, lying to me that it was

truly yearned to keep alive was his

to reclaim his true love.

miss

You’ve got it bad for me, so much that my recent lack

I’m willing to let it slide. Grace, whatever you do, I’m forgiving it.”