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I looked away and leaned against the car seat.Louis brushed his fingertips lightly against the back of my hand before locking our fingers together.“What did he say?” he asked. His tone was casual, but his grip tightened slightly.I turned my head to look at him.“It’s not important.”He smiled and didn’t let go of my hand until we arrived at the Italian restaurant.Meanwhile, Ruby broke down because she had finally realized a harsh truth—Jacob had never loved her.She was merely a substitute Jacob used to fill the sudden void left by someone else. Whenever he called her “Ruby,” he would look right through her, staring at someone who wasn’t actually there.When he took her out to eat, he would habitually blurt out, “Pancakes with bacon and eggs.”That was my favorite food.For the first time, Ruby slammed a plate down in front of Jacob.“Jacob, what on earth is on your mind?”Jacob glanced at her before turning away.“Ruby,” he said, “let’s break up.”That was it. S
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My father’s secretary sent another update. Jacob had gone to my father, demanding to see the original copy of the employment contract. My father had refused to hand it over, but Jacob managed to get his hands on a backup copy from my father’s personal attorney.The terms of the contract were spelled out in hard print. “During the term of this agreement, the Contractor shall, through emotional manipulation, instil in the Client’s daughter a profound distaste for romantic relationships, so that she will willingly accept a marriage arranged by the family. Under no circumstances shall the Contractor develop genuine feelings for the subject of the contract.“Any breach of this clause shall require the Contractor to refund the entire eight-figure retainer and compensate the Client for all associated damages.”Word had it that the day Jacob read that contract, he smashed a glass right in my father’s office.He had demanded, “A subject? Is that all she is to you? Just a subject?”My f
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The next morning, I woke up to find seventeen friend requests from Jacob. Every single one of them had been sent over the course of the night.I ignored them all.His messages had evolved drastically over the hours. [We need to talk.][I can explain what happened that night.][Natalie, you can’t do this to me.]I couldn’t do what, exactly? I couldn’t let a professional actor, who had already cashed a multi-million-dollar check, wrap up his production on schedule?Honestly, I felt I had been incredibly merciful.By the fifth day, Louis’s assistant forwarded an email to me. It was a message Jacob had written directly to the public relations department of Lanes Group.It was a sprawling, two-thousand-word essay. The gist of it was to tell them that I was mentally unstable and to urge Louis to reconsider the engagement.I read the entire thing at my desk and then slowly leaned back against my chair, laughing. He was still desperately trying to play the “I know Natalie best” car
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That evening, Louis took me back to his penthouse in the city center.Right after we stepped through the door, he pulled a brand-new pair of women’s house slippers from the shoe cabinet. He even bent down to place them right by my feet. The size was perfect.I looked around the place. On the coffee table in the living room, there was a glass of water and a charcuterie board. Up on the bathroom shelf sat a complete, unopened set of top-tier luxury skincare products. Even the accent pillows on the couch were in my favorite Morandi color palette.“Do you keep these things ready in every property under your name, Mr. Lane?” I asked as I slid my feet into the slippers and looked at him with a half-smile.Louis was just pulling off his tie, but he froze at my words.“Only this place has them,” he said, casually draping his tie over the couch while avoiding my gaze. “And they were only ever prepared for you.”I walked up to him and looked at him. “You’ve known me for a long time, haven’
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“Don’t you understand?” I looked at him coldly and continued, “You did a great job meeting your KPIs as a professional boyfriend.“The eight-figure sum Mr. Hill promised you, combined with this final payment from me, should be more than enough for you and your darling Ruby to buy a decent house to start your lives together.”A collective gasp echoed through the room.Ruby’s face drained of color as she turned to look at Jacob.“Jacob, what is she talking about?”Jacob panicked. He instinctively looked up at my father on the second-floor balcony, his face pale.“Nat, let me explain. I–”“Shh.” I cut him off, stuffing the check directly into his suit pocket.Then, I casually patted his chest and added, “The show is over, so stop trying to ad-lib your lines.”Right at that moment, the doors to the ballroom swung open once more. Louis walked in, carrying the cold chill of the night air with him. His assistant behind him didn’t even dare to follow too closely.The moment he appear
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Jacob’s mind games were becoming increasingly blatant. To speed up the process of breaking my heart, he began stepping on my boundaries at every single turn.I was running a fever of 102 degrees Fahrenheit, shivering all by myself in my rented apartment. I called him, and the call rang six times before he finally picked up.“Jacob, I have a high fever. Can you please take me to the hospital?”My voice sounded incredibly weak. Half of it was from being genuinely sick, and the other half was just me playing along with the script.The background on his end was loud, and Ruby’s laughter came through the speaker as clear as day.“Just take some painkillers. You’re a grown-up. How are you still so needy?” Jacob said impatiently. “Ruby is moving into her new place today, and I can’t leave. Figure it out yourself.”With a click, he hung up on me.I tossed the phone aside and poured myself a glass of water, my face expressionless.Ten minutes later, the doorbell rang. Thinking it was th
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