Todos los capítulos de You Lost Me First: Capítulo 1 - Capítulo 9

I opened social media, and the first thing I saw was Olivia Field's new post.[Still can't believe I just bought my first very own apartment!]In the photo, she was holding up the paperwork, smiling as if she had won the lottery.The comment that burned the most was from my fiancé, Nigel Cross.[Congrats! You're amazing!]I actually laughed.I had spent five years in this field without a single vacation day.The second before my mother was wheeled into surgery, I was still answering client emails.At my lowest, I sat in a hospital chair with an IV in my arm, negotiating over video call.People saw how hard I worked. But they didn't see that I was holding my whole family together alone.After my mother got sick, my younger siblings' tuition, the rent, and the bills for our small 900-square-foot apartment all landed on me.The medical bills, costing tens of thousands, almost crushed me.I drank at client dinners until my stomach bled. I fainted in the office more than once.

There was nothing left for me in this suffocating city.The next morning, I went to the office and submitted my resignation.That same evening, our department manager organized a team dinner at a bar a few blocks away.Halfway through the night, someone suggested we play Truth or Dare.The bottle ended up pointing at Olivia. She picked dare, and they challenged her to kiss a man of her choice.Her eyes swept across the table, quick and deliberate, before stopping on Nigel."I'll pick Mr. Cross," she said with a teasing smile. "Don't take it seriously. It's just a game."The bar went quiet.I remembered another party years ago. A girl had confessed to Nigel in front of everyone. He didn't refuse her right away and even accepted the glass of champagne she handed him.I grabbed the glass straight from his hand and dumped it into a nearby planter.I had always been ruthless about boundaries. Cross the line, and I would rather burn everything down than pretend it didn't matter.M

Nigel froze for a second, then grabbed his phone and called Melissa.A flat, automated voice answered. "The number you have dialed is unavailable. Please try again later."He hurled the phone onto the couch."No way."Unwilling to believe it, he picked up his phone and dialed again, only to hear the same hopeless busy tone."She blocked me? She actually blocked me? Just erased me like that?"Olivia lounged against the leather sofa, humming under her breath. "Relax. She's playing hard to get. Give her a few days. Ignore her. She'll come crawling back like she always does."She tilted her head with a smug smile tugging at her lips. "Every time you two fought, she'd say she wanted to break up. And every time you softened up, she gave in. She knows you can't stand being the villain. She's just trying to make you compromise."Nigel gripped his phone so tightly that his knuckles turned white.He thought about it.It was true. No matter how ugly their fights got, Melissa had never b

All the little things that used to move me now felt staged, almost ridiculous.Nigel remembered that I got cold easily and that I hated cinnamon.But he forgot when my mother needed surgery money, forgot the rocking chair that meant everything to me, and forgot the slap that ended us.The coffee arrived.Nigel gently pushed the cup toward me, his voice barely above a whisper. "I know you're angry. I've kept the rocking chair safe this whole time. It's still in the house. You can come take it whenever you want."I lifted the cup and took a sip. The taste was familiar.But all I felt inside was bitterness."Cut the act."I looked at him calmly. "You should be worrying about your intern, Olivia, instead of wasting time saying things like this to me. Our story ended a long time ago.""It's not over."He suddenly reached for my hand.I pulled back instantly, as if I had touched something dirty.His hand froze midair, and the color drained from his face."Melissa," he said quiet

I looked at Olivia's spiraling expression and calmly shook my head."I'm not heartbroken, and I'm not miserable. Honestly, I like my life right now. Whoever Nigel chooses has nothing to do with me. I stopped caring a long time ago.""That's impossible!"Her voice sharpened, almost breaking. "You're lying! You can't be this calm. You used to give up everything for him. He's gonna marry me. Why aren't you falling apart?"I studied her face, and suddenly, I understood.She had never really loved Nigel.This had always been about me. She wanted to win.I let out a small laugh. "You don't actually love him. You just wanted to beat me. Isn't that right?"Her face was drained of color. Her eyes darted away. "What are you talking about?" she snapped, but the confidence was already gone."You know exactly what I mean." I stepped closer, meeting her gaze. "From the day you joined the company, you treated me like competition. You envied my relationship. You envied my career. You thought