All Chapters of Truth Or Dare? I Chose To Go: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

Whenever they played Truth or Dare, my boyfriend's childhood sweetheart, Clara would deliberately dare him to pull the same prank on me, and Ronan would always willingly play along: he would pretend to propose to me.The last time, I fell for it. I joyfully held out my hand, but a mechanism inside the ring snapped shut, and I cried out in pain.Ronan and Clara doubled over with laughter, ignoring my finger, which had been pinched purple.Afterward, Ronan pinned me against the wall and swore that this year, he would give me a real proposal.So when his bodyguards brought me to the private club where we first met, I changed into an expensive white silk gown, styled my hair, and applied my most exquisite makeup.I even played the touching scene out in my head, imagining myself nodding and saying yes.But as I pushed open the door to the VIP room, my heart pounding, someone threw a full glass of deep red wine in my face. It streamed down my chin and onto my gown.A woman's laughter erupted

The slap echoed in the room.Hearing the noise, Clara shot up from the sofa. She stumbled over and backhanded me across the face, the force of it whipping my head to the side."Who the hell do you think you are? You think you can just hit Ronan whenever you want?""You should take a good look at yourself and see what you're worth."My cheek was instantly on fire. I instinctively raised my hand to strike back, but Ronan grabbed my wrist and shoved me violently aside.My lower back slammed into the doorknob. A sharp pain shot up my spine to the top of my head, and I sucked in a sharp breath.And he, the first thing he did was pull Clara into his arms."She's drunk. Why are you picking a fight with her?""Aurora, just go outside and cool off." He did not even look at me, his hand patting Clara's back in a steady rhythm. "Even this drunk, you're still trying to play the hero."I stared at him, stunned.I watched his nonchalant expression, as if I were just an insignificant outsider, not ev

In the quiet of the clinic room, Ronan had been sitting by the bed for over ten minutes. His phone screen stayed dark.He suddenly remembered the faint sound of footsteps from the end of the hall.He had been about to get up to look, but Clara had pulled him back by the sleeve.A flicker of foreboding sparked within him, a sense that things were spinning out of control, but he just as quickly crushed the feeling.Impossible.Knowing Aurora's stubborn and straightforward nature, he figured she would have stormed right in and confronted him if she'd heard anything."What are you thinking about? Hasn't your precious little pet come crawling back yet? If she gives me any more of that attitude, I won't even bother with a half-assed apology."Clara draped her arms around his neck, her tone impatient.Ronan's brow twitched. For the first time, a gesture he had known his entire life sparked a sharp, bone-deep annoyance.He removed her hands, his face expressionless."Stop messing around. She'l

The fragile thread of hope he'd been clinging to on the entire drive over finally snapped.Ronan's legs gave out, and he slid down the wall, nearly collapsing to the floor.His hand, usually rock-steady with a gun, was trembling against the wall. His eyes were bloodshot, his mind a chaotic mess."That... that's impossible. She never mentioned anything. Did you force her to transfer?"The supervisor shook her head, a hint of pity in her tone."No, this was finalized a week ago. I tried to convince her to stay. She was hesitant at first, but then she called me at midnight last night to confirm everything. Said she'd already booked the first flight out.""She didn't tell you? Well, there's nothing to be done. She completed all the paperwork last night. We gave her today off to pack her things."In that moment, he finally understood. When Aurora said they were breaking up last night, she had meant it.She was really and truly done with him.Ronan slid down the cold wall and sank to the flo

I still didn't like to cook, but there was a sandwich shop downstairs from the office that I loved.I was still afraid of sleeping alone, but my new apartment had a top-of-the-line security system.The company even arranged tactical self-defense classes during our monthly team-building days to teach us how to handle danger.And so, all the insecurities I once thought could only be soothed by a relationship were quietly fading away, one by one, in a new city and a new life.If only I'd found the courage to leave him sooner, this quiet life might have been mine long ago.A few months later, during a long holiday, a few friendly colleagues, seeing me always cooped up in my room studying, insisted on taking me for a drive to the beach.As I was leaving that day, I unexpectedly ran into Ronan.He was just walking out of the corner coffee shop across from our office building.Only then did I vaguely recall a colleague mentioning offhandedly that Ronan had moved part of his family's operation