Chapter286

My boyfriend, Antonio Kaufman, and my brother, Tyler Parrish, were both smitten with Michelle Conner, the new girl in town.

Antonio abruptly ended our engagement, coldly stating, "I haven't had feelings for you for a long time, Grace.."

Tyler, disregarding our mom's dying wishes that he look after me, dismissed my concerns with, "Michelle has such a hard life, and now she's like family.

You get that, right?"

On my birthday, Antonio chose to be with Michelle, leaving me alone.

On the anniversary of our mom's death, Tyler was celebrating with Michelle and her mom, oblivious to my grief.

When they were off to Abalind for Michelle's design award, I set fire to our childhood home, a repository of shared memories.

The school was abuzz with rumors of my suicide.

They wept over my photo, expressing remorse for abandoning me, but it was far too late.

aKK "We're engaged, remember?" I reminded Antonio at a party, hoping to jolt his memory, to reclaim some semblance of our past.

The room fell silent, everyone anticipating his response.

He looked annoying. "Our engagement was arranged by our parents. It wasn't my choice."

I pressed, my voice barely a whisper. "Then why did you agree to it?"

the couch,

scattering of hickeys.

of nausea washed over

he had given his heart to

didn't understand what love was until now," he admitted, his

a hollow ache spreading through my

we're

with. Let's not dwell on

detachment, as if watching my own life unfold from a

easy

open, and Michelle entered, dressed in a waitress

when she saw me. "I'm sorry. Wrong

She looked at

tomorrow," she whispered, her voice

set the tray down and

Antonio kicked the coffee

shattered, spraying shards

sharp pain shot through my arm as a piece of

Blood welled up.

even look

his

He

it off. "Michelle, I told you.net 4er ruffled apron and < anymore!" Content

nodded, her voice meek, "I just don't want to keep taking

money.

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