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The Stand-In Game Chapter 9
I fell silent, genuinely stunned. Four years had passed, and only now did Andrew's condition finally lift. Still, it was far too late to mean anything.Years ago, I kept urging Andrew to see a doctor, but he would brush it off every time. He called it embarrassing and refused to go.I wondered how he had been cured, but it wasn't my business anymore. I stepped around him to leave. He slid into my path, blocking my way, his face a tangle of emotions.After a few seconds, Andrew steeled himself and finally said it outright. "I'm sorry, Sophie. I hurt you for four years. You were my wife, but I kept treating you like a stranger and even hurt you."I looked into everything before I came here and learned the truth. I'm ashamed to face you, but I can't let you go. I've realized that you're the one I love, not Ivy."When I married you, I foolishly tried to make you her stand-in, but it turns out she was the one standing in for you. Ridiculous of me, right? Does love that comes this late
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Ivy's confession snuffed out what was left of Andrew's hope. The girl hadn't been Ivy at all. It was me, the face he could never hold on to. It turned out he wasn't just face-blind. He had been an idiot.My features came into focus in his mind, fusing fast with the girl who had saved him. When the truth hit, he barked a laugh, pounded his chest, and roared in agony."Four years. It took me four years to learn the truth and to see why she never stopped chasing me."Andrew remembered how I kept showing up after we were adults. I confessed my feelings for him, and he brushed me off for being too bold.After that, I hovered in his orbit. Even when people laughed at me, I swallowed my pride and held out for a sliver of his affection.Our parents knew each other, and once they saw how much I loved him, they pushed for the match.Andrew refused to marry me, so I threw my pride away and caused a scene, sobbing and pleading. I even threatened to end it all.It became a public spectacle,
The Stand-In Game Chapter 7
After Andrew finished reading the letter, he was taken aback. The words "crash" and "15" dragged him back to that sketch, stirring his doubts all over again. Accepting my divorce became even harder.Maybe our marriage started under parental pressure, but he had gotten used to having me around over the years. I had kept his days neat and orderly, after all.He wouldn't have hurt me if not for Ivy. She had saved him, and the feelings tied to a first love were different.Andrew refused the divorce and sent the lawyer away. As the filing was already in, our split turned into a full-blown legal fight. Meanwhile, I was still nowhere to be found.Two months later, he finally panicked. Ivy waited at home for him every day, yet it all felt different, like something essential was missing.Over time, Andrew grew short-tempered and stopped being kind to Ivy. He woke from nightmares every night, reliving the car crash.Again and again, my face broke through his dreams, overlapping with Ivy's
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Andrew fixed Gary with a disbelieving stare, his voice rising as he pressed for confirmation. "Are you telling me she's Sophie?"Gary nodded hard, looking helpless. "Yes. You've lived under the same roof for four years. How can you still not recognize Mrs. Connolly?"Gary's reproachful look robbed Andrew of words. A moment later, the realization slammed into Andrew. He swayed and dropped onto the couch, shaken."How could it be her?"Not knowing what was going on, Gary could only calm him. "Mr. Connolly, Mrs. Connolly has been gone for days. If you have questions, bring her home and ask her yourself."Andrew couldn't take it in. He kept repeating "why" under his breath.Helpless, Gary said nothing.After a long moment, Andrew pushed to his feet, agitated, and muttered to himself, "No way. The one who saved me was Ivy, not Sophie."Then, in a burst of anger, Andrew ripped the sketch to shreds and let the pieces scatter across the floor. He turned and strode out to look for Ivy.
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At Andrew's order, the bodyguards advanced toward me. He didn't recognize me, and neither did anyone around him.We had lived almost like a secret marriage for years, and he never once named me in public, so almost no one knew what I looked like. Naturally, the bodyguards took me for the villain.Fists and boots rained down, each blow driving a white-hot blade of pain through my body. The agony swallowed everything else, and a bloodcurdling scream tore out of me, my voice ringing through the empty warehouse.Even so, not one person spared me a shred of mercy. Blow after blow, I became nothing but a mangled, blood-smeared heap, until the agony burned itself down to numbness.I had no idea how long it went on. The bodyguards didn't stop until I was barely breathing.In that moment, Andrew stared at me like I was his mortal enemy, as if I had committed the unforgivable. He raised his boot and ground its heavy leather sole across my face.He warned me, his voice as cold as steel. "Th
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Seeing Andrew and Ivy in each other's arms, I felt pain shot through me, rib by rib, until it bit down on my heart. I swayed, on the verge of passing out. Little by little, the pain leveled into a quiet numbness.I gave up on Andrew for good. I turned away in disappointment, and even though I kept my shoulders squared, I knew I had already lost.…By evening, I had pulled myself together and gone home, only to find Ivy curled up in my bed. I stopped cold when I realized she was wearing my red dress.She tilted a knowing smile and said, "Oh, please. Know your place. Clinging to Andrew won't get you anywhere. Be sensible. Walk away and keep what dignity you have left."Then she wrinkled her nose at me. "You're insufferable. You even copied my style."My face slackened for a beat. After a moment of silence, I blinked, and my vision cleared. Whatever confusion I had had was gone.With Andrew bringing Ivy into our home, there was no point in keeping up the act.I tore the love-token
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