The Lies He Told Me (Grace and Antonio)

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Grace's POV

My fiance, who I will marry in a few weeks, is with another woman.

While I'm right here, trying to weave through my asthma attack, he's right there dancing with her.

His eyes are glued to her, failing to spare me a single glance, even though my chest is heaving up and down and I can barely breathe.

I've been in love with Antonio for eight years now. And for a while it felt like he was in love with me. But everything changed when that woman showed up.

Now, it seems like I barely exist to him.

Only when their dance is finished does he go back to me. But even then, he just leaves to go home with me. I get in the car, and once I open the glove box, I find a diamond ring.

"What is this?" I ask.

He immediately snatches it away from my grasp. "It's not for you."

I nod, keeping all my emotions at bay until he reaches the corner of the road. "Pull up over here, please."

"What for?" he asks, but I don't answer him. I just head to the shop in the distance.

A few months ago, I decided to have a wedding dress custom-

made for me. But now, I don't think I have any use for it. I just need to have the whole thing canceled and destroyed.

But just as I walk into the shop, Antonio follows me.

He shoves my coat on my face, shouting, "Why do you always leave your stuff, Grace? I'm tired of picking

up after you."

Antonio is a neat freak. He doesn't like when I leave some of my stuff in his car.

But I look at the coat he tries to give me, and I notice something. "That's not my coat."

His irritation vanishes at once. He picks it up, his expression now considerably softer than when we started talking.

I know that it's because the coat belongs to Cecilia Smith.

time she leaves something in his car,

Antonio. This time, however, it doesn't lead to anything at all.

lady. "HI, I'm the

are both done. You can try them on now. I can reserve a showroom

to say no, but Antonio is already

I head out to look at myself in the mirror. Antonio is

"You don't look good in

her my phone. "Can you take a picture of

picture. But just as the lady is about to click, his phone

answers without walking away, his mood

you can just give it back to me, I would

be on my

can just kiss you right now!" she says

leaves, still in his suit. I hear his car roaring away. My heart breaks. I take a deep breath and reach for the scissors in the corner, tearing

home alone, and

the bar,"

this is the first time Antonio took the time to tell me

a hot shower and

my trash, I run into Antonio. He's marching towards my apartment with an angry

breath. I know why he's upset. It's because I used to call him nonstop when he goes out late, and

slept.

Then, he notices my wall. "Hold on. We used to have

open my mouth to tell him that I've thrown it away, his

starts a voice message. "Hold on, Cici. I'm going to see you right

he doesn't

He just watches me

the trash out and come back. I'm tired, since I haven't eaten dinner or breakfast, so I

I wash my hands.

eat it, I notice that he's watching me in

you really that hungry?" he asks. "Why do you need to shove it all in

the rest of the toast and shakes it into the

cooked for you for eight years," I say, "but I can't even have my full breakfast in peace

me a cold glance. "I own this house. I make

didn't even ask me before you ate it.

his head, he puts on his jacket and storms lout, leaving