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She Joked About Runaway Marriage, I Meant It

She Joked About Runaway Marriage, I Meant It

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시놉시스

Childhood Sweethearts

Cheating

Marriage Escape

Winning Back the Husband

Plot Twists

Feel-Good Story

Scumbag

At the wedding, Victoria Langley's childhood friend, Spencer Calloway, catches the wedding bouquet that she's just tossed. He arches a brow at her. "Does this mean I'll have to propose to someone? Well then, Vic, are you willing to elope with me?" Victoria's bridesmaids begin cheering on him. Amid their loud cheers and giggles, they push Victoria into Spencer's arms. "Give us a kiss!" "What's with that shy look, Spencer? Didn't you bury your face into Victoria's chest and hold her while sleeping on the same bed at the bachelorette's party last night?" Victoria giggles as she pinches one of the bridesmaids. "What's with the ruckus? My husband is still here, you know!" But the tips of her ears have secretly gone red. Spencer's lips curl into a wicked smile as he shrugs nonchalantly. "I'm fine with it. It's just that a certain someone's mooch of a husband will be pissed." Only then does Victoria turn to look at me. She pinches me on the chin gently while saying to me casually, "C'mon, it's just a joke. Don't be so petty." Then, she declares, "Let's continue the wedding." But I wave Victoria's hand away coolly before taking the microphone from the wedding host. "Spencer wants to crash this wedding, right? Well, I'm taking everything seriously now." Three days later, Victoria's eyes become red-rimmed as she stands outside the courthouse. As for me, I've never looked back ever since.

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Chapter 1
The bridesmaids froze mid-laugh. Guests started whispering.Victoria Langley grabbed my wrist, her face tight. "Spencer was just messing around. Do you really have to do this?"She kept her voice low. "Stop making a scene, okay? This is the wedding you've been looking forward to for so long. Grandma is still waiting to see our wedding video."The night before, my grandmother had one of her rare lucid moments. Her hands trembled as she joined my hand with Victoria's. Victoria knelt at the side of her hospital bed and promised she'd stand by me for the rest of her life.Then she turned around and spent her bachelorette party all over Spencer Calloway.My eyes stung. I raised my voice. "Burying your face in his chest and sleeping in the same bed is just messing around?"The words carried across the entire venue. Every guest swiveled between Victoria and Spencer, gossip written all over their faces.A flash of embarrassed anger crossed Victoria's face. She snatched the microphone ou
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Chapter 2
"Let him go! I'll wait for him to come crawling back on his knees."I walked out of the reception hall without looking back, leaving Victoria's furious snarl far behind me.I flagged down a cab. The driver kept glancing at me in the rearview mirror before carefully speaking up. "Where to, sir?"I sat in the back seat, the anger churning in my chest slowly dissolving into something blank. Where could I even go?Not long after my parents died, Grandma, still dazed with grief, got into a car accident. The other party demanded a massive settlement, and I had no choice but to sell the house.It was pouring that day and I couldn't get a cab. Victoria was the one who showed up on a motorcycle and tore through the rain to get me to the hospital. She pulled off her helmet one-handed, revealing sharp, striking features."There's no PIN on it. Use it for now." Before I could react, she shoved a bank card into my hand and walked away.By the time I sorted everything out and tried to pay her
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Chapter 3
I went straight to the gaming room the moment I stepped out of the cab.Victoria had hidden a box in here. I caught her once, carefully tucking photos inside. I tried to get a look, but she just laughed and threw herself into my arms. "It's a surprise for when we get married."So I waited. I kept imagining what might be in that box.The lock was a four-digit combination. I tried Victoria's birthday, our anniversary, and my birthday, but none of them worked.My fingers were shaking when I punched in Spencer's birthday, and it opened.Inside were three thick photo albums, ten sports car keys, and a dark green velvet jewelry case. I opened the first album.Every page was Spencer, from childhood to the present day. On the back of one photo where a younger Spencer stood on a winner's podium, helmet tucked under his arm, Victoria had written a single line."The love of my life. May you always shine."The date was July 5th, 2016, the day my parents died."So you found it." Victoria's
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Chapter 4
The light in the storage room was broken, and there were no windows. I lasted until morning. When the housekeeper came to unlock the door, she flinched at the sight of me, my eyes bloodshot."Sir, are you alright?"I shook my head, my voice dry and raw. "Emma, where's my phone?"Emma Lloyd pointed at the coffee table. "Ms. Langley made me cook you some breakfast before she left for her flight last night. She said you should stay off your phone for a few days."I spotted it tossed on the couch and walked straight past the table to grab it. The second it powered on, the screen flooded with missed calls and texts.I opened a link my college roommate had sent. The number-one trending topic was a marriage certificate that Victoria had posted alongside a childhood photo."Childhood sweethearts. Dreams do come true. @RacerSpencerCalloway."The comments were all congratulations."An heiress and the hottest racer in the sport, and they grew up together? I'm obsessed!""Wishing her man
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Chapter 5
I always kept a strict routine. There was no way I'd still be in bed close to noon without having eaten. She thought maybe losing my job so suddenly had thrown me off.Victoria smiled and shook her head, then headed upstairs to the master bedroom. "Good morning, honey. Get up. We're going to get our license today."She reached the bed, but the covers were smooth and untouched. No one had slept there.Victoria frowned and pushed open the study door next to it, but it was also empty.An uneasy feeling crept into her chest. "Caleb?"Her steps quickened. She searched every room upstairs and down. The house was completely empty."Welcome back, Ms. Langley." Emma arrived at her usual time to make lunch and greeted Victoria at the door.Victoria frowned. "Where's Caleb? Did you tell him to stay off his phone as I asked?""I did, but he got a call yesterday morning and left right after. It doesn't look like he's been back since. He hasn't touched any of the meals I made the past two da
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Chapter 6
The county clerk's office closed, and I never showed up.The smile on Victoria's lips slowly faded. She opened our pinned chat one more time. The last message was the one she'd sent. "I'll be right here waiting."Frustration and anger churned in her chest. She'd taken a red-eye flight, ten hours overnight, just to celebrate our anniversary together. And I'd left her waiting the entire day.She scrolled up through our messages and realized the last thing I'd sent was from two days ago."Babe, I'm so nervous."I'd sent it from the hotel while getting ready to head over with the groomsmen. Victoria pressed her lips together and started typing a reply, but a message from her bridesmaid, Holly Reid, popped up first."Vic, isn't this Caleb?"A video followed. Victoria tapped it without thinking.It showed the back of a young man in a wedding suit, collapsed in front of a hospital payment counter. He sat there, frozen, staring as the medical staff wheeled a gurney past him with a whit
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Chapter 7
The humid season had settled over Southport, thick and suffocating. Water trickled down the walls of the old apartment building.I held Grandma's urn and made my way up the slick staircase as memories of growing up here with her came flooding back.I had terrible balance as a kid and was always tripping over something. Every time the humidity rolled in, Grandma would go out before me with a mop and carefully dry every step on every floor."Careful, sweetheart. Take it slow. Don't fall.""I'm sorry, Grandma. I think I've taken the biggest fall of my life."I sniffled hard and forced the tears back down. The steps were slippery, and there was no one left to clear the way for me.When I reached the fifth floor, the electronic lock on the front door wouldn't respond no matter what I tried. In the span of three days, I'd lost my only family, the woman I'd loved for eight years, and the career I'd spent four years building.I slid down against the door until I was sitting on the floor
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Chapter 8
Victoria found out I'd taken Grandma's ashes back to Southport and traveled all the way here, only to walk in on Nora holding me while I cried.She stormed over. The white roses in her hand hit Nora first, and then she swung and slapped her across the face. Nora pulled me behind her without hesitation and took the full force of it."Stop it! Victoria, have you lost your mind?"Nora, are you okay?" I pushed past her to check. One side of Nora's face was already flushed red, and blood was seeping from the corner of her mouth."I'm fine," she said, giving me a reassuring look. "I hope that didn't scare you.""Caleb Mercer!"Victoria's eyes went red the second she saw that I hadn't spared her a single glance, that I was standing right in front of her fussing over another woman."I waited for you at the county clerk's office all day. I texted you, and you didn't reply. I called you, and you didn't pick up."I was worried sick, looking for you everywhere, and you were here hugging an
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Chapter 9
Nora's lawyer friend came down to the station to help sort out the rest.As Nora and I walked out of the station side by side, Victoria's low, hoarse voice came from behind me. "Caleb, I'm sorry."I didn't turn around.On the drive home, Nora didn't ask a single question. When we passed a pharmacy, I spoke up first."Nora, can you pull over? I'm sorry you got hurt because of me."Nora sighed and turned to look at me. "I'm the one who should be sorry. I had no idea you'd been going through so much this whole time."The weight of everything hit me all at once, and the tears came pouring out before I could stop them.Over the following month, Victoria didn't show up again. The only sign of her was a transfer of 70 million dollars into my account as compensation.Slowly, one meal at a time, with Nora there beside me, I started to come back to myself.Nora was an associate professor at Graydon University. With her recommendation, I applied for a math teaching position at Graydon Pr
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