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.

I’m not holding it against you.

should love myself first before seeking

years apart, my mom and I both made the

Antonio’s been calling non–stop,”

to dry my tears, but hers started flowing

I’m with you all the way,” she said, supporting me no matter

up with calls and messages from

even catch up on the

stress, like he

heard Antonio this worked up before.

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

you read my journal? It’s not

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promise you. She’s

to me.

in the tears you’ve left on my journal pages. I’ve been remiss, but it was never my intention to

feeling 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

you happy with it?

“Why the tears?”

was his shining moment, the

the most brilliant, the most vivid chapter

that I put in the work to get him back on

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

the one groveling to business associates, doing whatever

till I was senseless,

that registered with

onto was the heady, fantastical

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his chest, lying to me that it was a reminder of the

yearned to keep

chance to reclaim his true

he miss

a lesson, didn’t you? You’ve got it bad for me, so much that

let it slide. Grace, whatever you do, I’m