The Lies He Told Me (Grace and Antonio)

Chapter281

Looking back, Antonio's betrayal had been foreshadowed.

He'd pressured me, along with my parents, to donate a kidney to Lucia.

Gazing into my eyes, he'd promised, "Once you're recovered, we'll leave this town and start over."

It was a lie.

Lucia held a place in his heart! could never occupy.

"I'm sorry," Antonio mumbled, pushing Lucia away as if remembering his vow to me. "I told Grace I'd always love her."

His feign affection sickened me.

Lucia sobbed, clutching her wound.

My parents rushed to call a nurse and pulled Antonio aside for a private conversation.

Outside, Dad confronted Antonio, "Do you have feelings for Lucia?"

Antonio hesitated. "I'm not sure."

"It's a simple yes or no. Do you like Lucia?"

sister, but since she got sick, I've been terrified of losing

a

shrugged, disconcertingly casual. "Grace never had Lucia's charm. Lucia

and Lucia have feelings for each other, end things with Grace. Lucia just had surgery; she needs

this harsh on Grace? She just gave her kidney to

love her anymore. It's better to

a pause, nodded. "Grace will understand. She's always been mature,

to have forgotten

childhood resistance to their

consta

that I give

resistance that always earned me a scolding,

you make her cry, you'll suffer." Dad

of

was tired

they'd forgotten me

me, not even Antonio, who broke up with

didn't wait for

consent, my feelings, were

My opinion never mattered.

kidney donation. My

me to