The Broken-hearted She And The Icy He

Chapter 1 A Wedding for the Woman He Loved

“Lily, you must marry that comatose man James in place of my daughter. This is what you owe the Ginger family! You-”

“I will.”

Lily’s reply made her foster mother gasp in disbelief. “What did you say?”

Lily could understand her shock. After all, in this massive capital city, who didn’t know how madly she was in love with John Jones? She’d loved him so much she’d given up her future, her dignity–everything.

She had refused her foster mother many times before, all because of John. Her foster mother clearly hadn’t expected her to actually agree this time–to marry a total stranger who lay in a vegetative state.

Calm and numb, Lily repeated, “I’ll do it.”

Once it was clear Lily was serious, her foster mother let out a breath of relief before snapping at her again. “One month from now, the Luke family will register your marriage with their eldest son. They have decided on that day, and it’s final. Someone will come to pick you up for the wedding that day. I’ve already accepted the bride price from the Luke family. It’s what you owe the Ginger family, and I’m not giving it back. If you dare go back on your word or stir up trouble, I will…”

“I won’t,” Lily cut her off coldly.

“The Luke family is rich. I trust the bride price was generous. You took me in from the orphanage and raised me for sixteen years. Now I’ll take your daughter’s place and marry into the Luke family. That settles my debt to you and the Ginger family. From now on, we owe each other nothing.”

With that, she hung up.

Sitting quietly at the dining table, Lily couldn’t help but reopen the news article she’d just seen.

It was everywhere–videos of John and Elsa Quinn’s wedding flooded the internet, dominating the trending charts.

In the video, he and Elsa stood hand in hand, surrounded by their friends, vowing to spend their lives together.

The entire internet was offering their blessings, rejoicing that the two had reunited and wishing them a lifetime of happiness.

Everyone except Lily.

Because John was her boyfriend–the man she had loved with all her heart.

he’d been paralyzed in a car accident. The cold–hearted Jones family had abandoned him, and Elsa had gone abroad and married

Lily was being bullied, he was the one who had

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freezing, snowy night when he had tried to

to take care of him, to lift him out of the darkness one step

that could help him walk again. To raise the money, she sold her blood, became a punching bag for rich people, ending up

but finally, two years ago, she scraped together enough for the

and promised he would treat her well for the rest of

had believed that everything they’d been through was finally behind them, and from then on,

expected things to fall apart the

had it Elsa was gravely ill and only had six months to live. Her last wish was to marry

he once loved suffer, so the wedding Lily had spent six painstaking months

Lily had sewn with her own hands–Elsa

ring John had custom–ordered for her–Elsa wore it on

Lily saw a

She recognized it instantly.

her parents had left

lost it while trying

had once told her he found it and would give it to her on

she liked it… he gave it

realized there was no point

call him. Didn’t beg him

slowly burned down. The whipped cream cake melted into a mess—just

when John finally came

the dining table with red eyes, clearly

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Chapter A Wedding for

you gone

his question and said calmly, “John, let’s break up. And tell Elsa to return my parents‘ keepsake as soon