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

said I should love myself first before seeking love from

and I both made the same

Antonio’s been calling non–stop,” my mom warned me.

my tears, but hers started flowing

you all the way,” she said,

was blowing up with calls

on the latest, another call was coming

his voice laden with stress, like he was holding

never heard Antonio this worked up

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

to explain, “Grace, have you read my journal? It’s

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on with Stella. I promise you. She’s just like a

to me.

see it in the tears you’ve left on my journal pages. I’ve been remiss, but it was

feeling kind

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

happy with it?

“Why the tears?”

shining moment, the highlight of his darkest days.

the most brilliant, the most vivid

memory that I put in the work to get him back on top.

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

associates, doing

downing drinks till I was senseless, so wasted I nearly lost our

registered with him.

onto was the heady, fantastical ride Stella offered him.

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lying to me that it was a reminder of the hard times, a

he truly yearned to keep alive was his fiery

the chance to reclaim his true love.

he miss me now?

the wedding to teach me a lesson, didn’t you? You’ve got it bad for me, so much that my recent

let it slide. Grace, whatever you