The Lies He Told Me (Grace and Antonio)

That night. Antonio came to me. I thought he wanted to learn more about the truth from me, since he realized that Celia had been lying to him. But I was wrong. He said, "Grace, Celia is innocent. Will you drop the case?"

I couldn't help but laugh.

I was impressed. Antonio still trusted her after all that had happened.

But, all of a sudden. I felt bad when I saw him looking so haggard.

After the Kaufman Group survived from going bankrupt, Antonio was never in a low spirit again. At least, that was what I had remembered of him.

I rubbed the straw ring in my pocket and changed the topic.

"When did it start? I mean you and her."

There was a trace of guilt on his face. Then, he subconsciously denied it.

I knew he would deny it. So, I showed him the footage of them kissing from a few years ago.

His face changed color as he saw it.

"Grace, I can explain it. It's not like what you think..."

I took out the straw ring

from my pocket, deadpan. I grabbed his hand and placed that small ring on his palm.

?While the Kaufmans were going through their darkest days, countless

debt collectors were after them. Antonio was just a kid at the time, but he was not spared.

?

Debt collectors would block the door of his rental home. They would frighten him and force him to tell them where his parents were.

them, I was the first person he would

is broke now. I can't provide you with a

he put this

it, as if we were already married, OK? Will you

feel he really didn't

he turned around and was about to run away.

rich again, you'll come back to me, will

that time, if you don't wanna marry me anymore, you can return this ring to me. I will let you go, even if it

a kid at the time, but somehow I wanted to

this point, I was

love with him for years, so it wasn't easy for me to simply walk

still held out the

to be done with him, once

at that ring. He also remembered hist promise

went round, his

jaw and

quickly wiped the tears from it and nervously clutched my hands, looking like a little boy afraid

"Grace, will you forgive me this

hand and slowly wiped the

kinder to you than she was to me. Before she died, her last wish

how did you pay

those are old grudges

fathers' generation and

is not

heard and seen

true!

then tell me, what

you promised me, you gave them to Celia Without a second thought. Yet,

out, all I could see from his face was guilt