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Chapter 3

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I ran out of the house, tears streaming down my face.

I had just roughly wiped away my tears with my sleeve when I suddenly heard footsteps behind me.

Edward had chased after me.

He crouched down in front of me, then reached out and gently wiped the tears from the corner of my eye with his thumb.

Just like he used to whenever I was bullied.

Back then, after my parents had misunderstood me yet again, I had hidden alone in the garden and cried.

He had found me there and crouched down just like this, wiping away my tears with his thumb.

“If they’re all going to favor Beth, then from now on, I’ll favor only you!”

“I’ll make up for all the love you never received and give you twice as much!”

My thoughts returned to the present, and his voice was still as gentle as it had been back then.

“Monica, don’t cry.”

I looked at him.

I couldn’t understand when exactly he had changed.

“Why?”

My voice was choked with tears, filled with an obsession I couldn’t let go of.

“Why did you abandon me to love someone else…”

The same person who had taken away all the love that should have been mine.

He froze for a moment, then lowered his head and remained silent for a long while before finally speaking.

“Because she’s different from you.”

As he spoke, he lifted his head.

“You’re quiet and reserved. You don’t like to talk. But she’s like a little ray of sunshine, always chattering beside me.”

A smile appeared on his face when he mentioned my sister.

“At first, I found her pretty annoying. Whenever I thought about all the pain you’d suffered because of her, I would instinctively shut her out.”

“But after spending more time with her, I somehow found myself infected by her passion.”

“It felt… wonderful.”

When he finished, he let out a sigh.

He looked just like a man who had already given his heart to someone else, yet was still swallowing his grievances for the sake of responsibility.

“Monica, don’t worry.”

“You gave me the best years of your youth. I’ll take responsibility for you.”

“As for the wedding, just consider it fulfilling one of her dreams.”

“From now on, I’ll keep my distance from her and be a good husband to you.”

When I heard that, I couldn’t help but laugh.

But the more I laughed, the more tears welled up in my eyes.

“Be a good husband ?”

“Edward, when all of you were blaming me just now, did you ever think about what it meant to be husband and wife?”

“You watched my mother slap me. You watched them tear me apart with their words. Did you say even one word in my defense?”

Edward fell silent.

He was just about to speak when his phone suddenly rang.

He answered it, and his expression changed instantly.

“What?”

My mother’s voice exploded from the other end of the phone, loud enough for even me to hear.

“Beth says she ruined your relationship and wants to make up for it now!”

“Edward, come quickly! She says she’s going to jump off the building and kill herself!”

Edward’s hand began to tremble.

He looked up at me, panic filling his eyes.

“Monica, Beth…”

“Go.”

He froze for a second, as if he couldn’t believe I would say that.

I looked at him.

Then, word by word, I exposed her lie.

“Edward, do you think she really wants to die, or does she simply know that you’ll come back whenever she threatens to?”

His lips moved, but he couldn’t say a word.

“When you betrayed me and secretly fell in love with her, did she ever think about making amends?”

“When she wore my wedding dress yesterday and linked her arm through yours to exchange vows, did she ever think about making amends?”

“And now that I’ve left, she suddenly wants to make amends.”

Edward stood there clutching his phone, sweat beading across his forehead.

Then Alice’s voice came from the other end of the call, growing more frantic with every word.

“Edward, what are you doing? Beth’s really going to jump!”

“You stopped loving Monica a long time ago. Why do you even care about her anymore?”

He closed his eyes for a moment, finally making up his mind.

“Monica, I’m going over there first. She is your sister, after all…”

“She’s not my sister.”

I cut him off.

“From the day you betrayed me, she stopped being my sister.”

“And you’re no longer the man I want to marry.”

Edward looked at me, his eyes reddening.

“Monica, don’t say that.”

“When I come back, we’ll talk this through.”

I didn’t answer.

I watched his retreating figure as he ran away, the morning breeze blowing my skirt against my legs.

I slowly sat down on the bench and raised a hand to touch the corner of my eye.

There was still a trace of warmth where he had wiped my tears.

But my heart had already turned completely cold.
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