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When I Walked Away

When I Walked Away

Short Story · Romance
By:  Sweetie MooreCompleted
Language: English
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Tragic Love

Plot Twists

Melodramatic

Mistress

Bias

Regret

Marriage

Winning Back the Husband

At our wedding, my wife's assistant "accidentally" uploaded the wrong photo. The big screen was supposed to display our wedding portraits. Instead, it was a picture of my wife and him in full wedding attire. Their fingers were laced together, their eyes locked in a soft, intimate gaze, looking every bit like a blissfully happy couple. The entire venue erupted in shocked whispers. The assistant froze in shock, acting like he had no idea why he was in the photo. He started panicking, asking if we should just postpone the ceremony. My wife, however, stayed surprisingly calm. She whispered her solution, “Everyone’s here. Postponing now would be humiliating and, honestly, a bad omen. Beside, most people here don’t even know what the groom looks like. Why don’t we just let him stand in for you?” Our friends were dumbfounded. They all thought I’d explode in anger and jealousy after hearing something so outrageous. Instead, I nodded, saying it was actually a great idea. Seeing how composed I remained, my wife looked pleased with herself. She told me that since we were legally married anyway, she’d make it up to me later with another ceremony. However, she seemed to have forgotten one thing: she had just signed the divorce papers.

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22 Chapters
Chapter 1
“How can you switch grooms in the middle of a wedding? What’s Graham supposed to do? He’ll probably be heartbroken again.”A friend couldn’t resist glancing at me. I could tell he was only trying to stir the pot, waiting to see me blow up.Honestly, if this were before, I probably would’ve raged with jealousy and thought Lucy Leavitt’s suggestion was absolutely insane. Yet now, to everyone’s surprise—including my own—I was calm. After all, situations like this had happened too many times, and I’d long gone numb. Ever since Zack Graff became Lucy’s assistant, she had done countless things for him that left me stunned.When we went to the movies, she insisted on bringing him along. She claimed he was scared of the dark, then left me alone and went to sit with him. When I fell sick and urgently needed money, she told me to “tough it out” to build resistance, yet she turned around and bought a limited-edition figure for Zack because he liked it.When we scheduled our wedding photos,
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Chapter 2
When the words left my mouth, I wished I hadn’t wasted my breath on her.Back when we registered our marriage, Lucy insisted we keep it hidden from the company. She said she didn’t want the employees thinking I’d get special treatment, so she wanted our marriage kept quiet. I understood her and went along with it. However, later on, she stopped caring about discretion and openly acted intimately with Zack at work. Everyone in the company thought she and Zack were the real couple, and she didn’t bother to explain. In fact, she seemed to enjoy the misunderstanding.Even when it came to planning the wedding, she only invited business partners. She didn’t invite a single friend or relative. Her explanation at the time was that since we lived in another city, even if we announced our wedding, our friends wouldn’t be able to come. She said it would only look like we were asking for gifts, so it was better to keep things simple and quiet, and we could have a celebration back home later.
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Chapter 3
“Graham, everything that happened before is in the past now. We should focus on living in the moment. How about this? Take a month off and get some rest. I’ll be away on a business trip, and we can talk when I get back.”She didn’t even wait for my reaction before she picked up her suitcase and walked out, humming a tune.I stood frozen where I was, ears ringing, unable to process anything for a long time. I never expected that the thorn in my heart for years would be met with such a response. However, the old Lucy wasn’t like that.Back then, when she was pulled out of that fire, my dad suffered third-degree burns over eighty percent of his body. She cried as she apologized to him, and to distract him from the pain, she told him sweet, gentle stories for hours. Later, when my dad passed away, she promised she would remember that day forever—that she would never forget her life was saved by him.Yet now, barely a decade later, she had changed. If she could treat something as seriou
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Chapter 4
I hesitated for a moment, but I still picked up the call.Before I could say anything, I heard Lucy’s cheerful voice on the other end. “Graham, I’ve got a contract here. Look it over for me and send it back as soon as you can. I need it urgently.”Before I even replied, the document landed in my inbox.I glanced at it and immediately recognized it as a project Zack had been handling. I couldn’t help but laugh. Lucy did this all the time. Whatever Zack couldn’t finish, she dumped on me. If it turned out well, the credit went to Zack. If it didn’t, then it was my incapacity.I had resisted before. Whenever that happened, she’d comfort me afterward, calling it “training,” as if she were doing me a favor. This time, though, I didn’t swallow it just to avoid making her angry like I used to.“I’m sorry,” I said calmly. “I can’t do it.”Maybe she was too used to me taking everything silently. Hence, when I actually refused, she froze for a second and then grew impatient.“It’s just rev
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Chapter 5
I glanced toward the monitor by the door, curious who was knocking, and realized it was a girl who had joined us for dinner earlier tonight. She wore a floral maxi skirt with a white blouse, looking young, fresh, and full of energy.Hugh had introduced her during the meal. Her name was Rylee Snow—a recent graduate with no real work experience yet, but apparently sharp and quick to learn. For now, she would be working as my temporary assistant, but why was she here?I opened the door and asked her that question.“You drank quite a bit tonight, and you barely ate anything.” Rylee scratched her head shyly. “I live close by, and I just made something. I thought I’d bring you some too.”She opened the insulated Tupperware, and the smell drifted out instantly.“Try it. Don’t worry. I noticed earlier that you don’t handle spicy food well, so I didn’t add too much spice.”Her words made me pause for a moment.I had lived with Lucy for years, and I’d told her countless times that I could
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Chapter 6
When she saw me, Lucy instinctively pulled her hand back. Beside her, Zack’s expression flickered with annoyance, but it passed quickly, and he recovered his usual calm, smiling as he stepped forward. “No wonder I heard from HR the other day that you were looking for Lucy. You could’ve just given her a call. Why come all the way here in person?”Hearing that, Lucy frowned, as if she suddenly realized something.“Were you following me?” she asked.“What do you mean? Don’t you trust me?” I countered, finding it funny, but didn’t bother explaining much. “I wasn’t following you. My friends and I are here for dinner.”She clearly didn’t believe me.“Cut the cr*p. Do you think I don’t know whether you have friends? If you were following me, just admit it. Why lie?”I couldn’t help but smirk.She knew me better than anyone. She knew I had left my hometown and had almost no friends, yet she had chosen to leave me alone in that city to cool off. I remembered last year, she lied about g
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Chapter 7
That night, I didn’t let them ruin my mood. The celebration went off without a hitch. In fact, I quietly popped open another bottle of champagne to celebrate my successful divorce.After drinking my fill and heading home, I received a text from Lucy. It was basically an apology. She said Zack suddenly had a stomach problem, so she couldn’t come back down to see me.I didn’t expect anything from her, so it didn’t really bother me. What puzzled me, though, was that she even remembered to send a message. She had always stood me up before, and I usually had to ask the next day, only to be scolded for it."I had urgent matters. Why are you asking?" she would say.Soon, however, I understood why. Two minutes later, Lucy sent me the hospital address, asking me to make a warm chicken soup for them.I couldn’t help but chuckle. Back when she wasn’t feeling well, I would always make chicken soup for her. It was meant as care, but now, she was basically treating me like a servant, so I ignor
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Chapter 8
I made sure to show her the final page of the divorce papers. Her signature in the bottom right corner looked a little sloppy from her rushing to scribble it that day when she was worried about Zack. However, she likely didn’t even remember doing it.Sure enough, when Lucy saw it, she froze for half a second before letting out a snort.“Graham, do you know the consequences for falsifying an important document? You imitated my signature pretty well, but I don’t remember signing this,” she said, raising an eyebrow confidently.I didn’t bother explaining. Instead, I handed the papers to her. “In that case, why don’t you take a good look and check if this is actually your handwriting?”Lucy frowned, annoyed but curious. She took it, and after examining the signature carefully, her expression tensed. She probably recognized it. Her signature was unique, with small details that were nearly impossible to replicate perfectly.Her face darkened. A tense silence hung in the air for almost h
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Chapter 9
Lucy froze mid-step, staring at me in disbelief.“You really do want a divorce?”I nodded. “Since we don’t love each other anymore, there’s no point in staying together and torturing ourselves.”“Who said so?” she shouted. “Graham, you were the one who proposed marriage in the first place. And now you want a divorce, too? Why should our marriage be decided by only one of us?”Lucy ignored the eyes of everyone around us and suddenly screamed at me in a hysterical rage.I couldn’t understand why she was angry. I was the one who proposed marriage, but I had asked five times before she finally agreed. Each time she had refused, she said she wanted freedom. Now, I was giving her that freedom, and I was leaving with nothing. The divorce wouldn’t cost her a thing, so what exactly was she still upset about?Before I could respond, she suddenly remembered something. Pointing at Rylee, her voice seethed with anger. “Is she the reason you want a divorce? Graham, have you fallen for her no
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Chapter 10
Lucy’s face went from pale to ashen. “What did you say? A shareholder?”Hugh spoke plainly, without beating around the bush. “Graham has joined our company. He’s now our second-largest shareholder.”Lucy’s face drained of color. She clearly didn’t recognize Hugh, and irritation flashed across her features.“What company are you talking about? And who are you?”Zack, standing beside her, tried to explain, “Lucy, if you recall, he is the one who runs the company we’ve won against. Most of their deals were ones we didn’t want, which is why they got them.”Hearing that, Lucy’s expression softened slightly. She sneered at Hugh. “I was wondering what kind of company it was. It turns out to be just some no-name operation that doesn’t even rank.“Graham, think it through. How much do you really think a company like theirs can afford to pay you? My company can give you more than that. In fact, I’m about to secure another major project. If this goes through, it’ll bring in over a billion i
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