INICIAR SESIÓN11:59 p.m. "Happy 10th anniversary, my girlfriend!" With Blake West's handsome face before me and our friends watching expectantly, I closed my eyes and made a wish over the candles. 12:00 a.m. Blake immediately reached over and carefully removed the tiara tangled in my hair without pulling a single strand. His charming eyes curved into a teasing smile. "Happy breakup, ex-girlfriend." The private room erupted in cheers. "It's that time of year again! Congrats, Blake. You're a free man!" "Bets are open! If you think they'll get back together, place your bets with me. If you think they won't, go see Brooks!" Amid the flashing lights and pounding music, I remained quietly in my seat as though none of it had anything to do with me. As Blake walked past with an arm around Corrine Duffy's slender waist, he reminded me, "Same rules as always. One month." I pressed a hand against my aching lower abdomen without letting anything show. 'Blake, this time, it's for a lifetime. I'm getting married. I don't care who it is, as long as it isn't you.'
Ver másCorinne had finally stopped hiding her malice. This time, she was coming straight at me with the knife in plain sight.Instead, I calmly sat back down and asked one of the young women on my team to call 911 and request an ambulance. She looked uneasy."Tessa, are you really not going up there? What if she..."I turned my phone toward her, showing her the livestream.On the rooftop, Corinne was sobbing and accusing me at the top of her lungs, but she was standing far from the edge."She's putting on a show. And the show might not even be for me. If I go up there and she feels forced to follow through, what if she really jumps?"My colleague walked away, still looking confused.Blake arrived. He was even thinner now.He grabbed Corinne by the wrist and tried to pull her downstairs. Their wrists were almost the same size."If you keep humiliating yourself like this, you'll have even less chance of ever becoming part of my family."Corinne wasn't willing to let her performance en
Thoughtless. Ridiculous.I pulled my hand back, a mocking smile on my lips. "Do you still remember how you once said you'd propose to me?""I'm sorry, Tessa. The ring I had custom-made isn't ready yet. Wear this one for now, and I'll replace it with yours later."And the wedding dress. I helped design it myself. I know every inch of your body. You'll be the most beautiful bride in that dress!"His words were suggestive enough that the people watching didn't hold back."So she's already been used up by some guy.""Did she run away from the wedding or something?"My face flushed bright red.Crash!Owen slammed Blake to the ground with one punch, taking several chairs and a table down with him. Blake tried twice but couldn't get back up."Watch your mouth. She waited ten years for you, and you wouldn't marry her. Now that she's broken up with you, suddenly you're devoted to her? Weren't you the one cheating on her?""Ah!" Corinne came rushing in from nowhere and desperately sho
Even after Hailey set me up with her brother, Owen Mercer, and I'd had dinner with him twice, I still dreamed about Blake glaring at me with bloodshot eyes, accusing me of cheating on him.I struggled with insomnia for a long time. Even listening to sleep streams only made me more awake.Eventually, I asked AI to interpret my dreams. It told me the dreams meant that my connection with the person in them had run its course.Holding on to that thought that our connection had run its course, I slowly began to emerge from the shadow of the past.By the time Blake finally tracked me down, I was meeting Owen for the third time.Owen was steady and quiet, but always thoughtful and attentive. He'd taken me to upscale restaurants the first two times, so today I insisted on treating him to a seafood boil.His surprised expression was unexpectedly cute. "I thought you didn't eat things like this."The truth was, the last time he'd gone to the restroom, I'd accidentally seen the notes on hi
After enough arguments, I'd gotten tired of fighting. So I'd bought a house myself.Blake had been perfectly happy to live in it, which meant I had complete authority to do whatever I wanted with the property.Blake didn't even have the right to question it. He regretted it now.Corinne caught up with him. "Blake, Tessa must have found someone else. She doesn't want you anymore. Why won't you look at me instead?"Blake's eyes were bloodshot as he violently shoved her hand away. "Get lost! This is all because of you! She was still here yesterday! If it weren't for you, why would she have been hurt? Why would she have left?"Corinne fell hard onto the ground. Pain shot from her tailbone into her lower back, but Blake didn't spare her so much as a glance.When Laurel called, I was being discharged from the hospital.The pregnancy had been very early, and my body had ended it naturally. I hadn't suffered much physically. It hadn't even progressed far enough to require a procedure.












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