Lahat ng Kabanata ng Foolishly In Love: Kabanata 1 - Kabanata 8

Miley's POV"Miley, you used Asher Ventures as bait to force me into this engagement. Do you really think marrying me will bring you happiness?"Julian Asher's cold, detached voice echoed in my ears as I stared at him.He stood in front of me in a white shirt and sweatpants, his features youthful and untamed. He was nothing like the composed, sharp-tongued star attorney he would become in the future.This was Julian at eighteen—the boy I traded my life to save.I gulped, holding back my tears. "You don't want to marry me because... the person you truly love is Jennifer, isn't it?"Julian let out a mocking laugh. "Yeah. You gonna make me marry her?"I nodded solemnly. "I can."My grandfather was a titan in the business world—one word from him could determine the fate of the Asher family. It was he who had arranged our engagement in the first place.Though Jennifer Nichols was only my stepsister, as long as I asked, I knew Grandpa would agree to let her be with Julian.The scor

Miley's POVPain washed over me, leaving my face as pale as a sheet.In my previous life, Jennifer died in a car accident on a stormy night. She was gone on the spot. Julian never got to see her one last time.He never forgave me for that—not even in death.But in this life, I had already stepped aside.So why… why was it still ending like this?Just when I was struggling to find a way to fulfill his final wish, fate handed me the opportunity on a silver platter.I made up my mind to trade my life for hers. I would save Jennifer and give Julian the happiness he deserved."Take my kidney. Use it to save her."Julian's grip on my wrist tightened even more."You think I won't do it?" he snapped. "Miley, if you hadn't constantly used this engagement to provoke her, would she have crashed into that highway guardrail? This is what you owe her!"He grabbed my arm and dragged me through the hospital corridors straight into the ICU.Jennifer lay on the bed, barely clinging to life.

Julian didn't believe it. He demanded, "It must be someone else with the same name. We're supposed to fly to Switzerland next week. How could she have gone to the airport?"The attending physician wore a heavy expression, his voice weighed down with sorrow."Mr. Asher, before Miss Ford left, she asked me to pass along a message. She's going to study law in the UK. She said… please don't look for her."The words pierced Julian's eardrums like an ice pick.So that's what Miley had meant in her hospital room when she wished him a lifetime of happiness.That wasn't a blessing. It was a farewell.A tremor gripped his soul. "No… That's impossible."He had fought tooth and nail for her life, had nearly died doing it. There was no way—no way—that Miley could just… be gone.His assistant choked back sobs."The person who called the police saw Miss Ford's car heading toward the airport highway… And at the scene, they found a woman's body. Her build was almost identical. The name on the

Miley's POVI left for Cambridge, and four years later, I graduated. Then I moved to a small border town where my mother had once lived in her youth, and became a lawyer.I poured everything I had into my cases, desperate to forget Julian, whose face haunted my dreams far too often.I never asked about him again, because I didn't want to ruin his happiness.Time slipped by quickly. That day, it was pouring outside.I had just finished organizing my case files and was stepping out the door when a black umbrella suddenly opened above my head.That familiar scent—etched into my very bones—surrounded me."You're still the same," came a deep, hoarse voice. "Always forgetting your umbrella when it rains. Your body's weak. Can't you take better care of yourself?"That voice—it was unmistakably Julian's.I must be dreaming again.Julian, the man who only ever protected Jennifer, could not possibly be standing here.I pinched my palm hard, trying to snap myself out of it.But the ma