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.

I

broke now. I can't provide you with a good life after we grow

this straw ring on

made this ring on my way here. Keep it, as if we were

feel he

cried, he turned around and was about to run

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

time, if you don't wanna marry me anymore, you can return this

kid at the time, but somehow I wanted to be

was pretty

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

of his wedding, I still held out

I wanted to be done with him, once and

his head and stared at that ring. He also remembered hist

went round, his

down his thin jaw and splashed onto the

it and nervously clutched my hands, looking like a little boy

looked at me and begged, "Grace, will you forgive me this time? I swear I will stop seeing Celia from now

wiped the remaining

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

you

those are old grudges

fathers' generation

is not

I have heard and seen

true!

then tell me,

things you promised me, you gave them to Celia Without a second thought. Yet, you called me vicious and bullying

I poured all those words out, all I could see from