Fiancé’s Regret After Cheating with My Best Friend のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 1 - チャプター 10

After I finished packing, I received a message.It was from a nurse at the hospital, saying that Miss Blake had woken up and was calling my name, asking if I could come see her.As if she actually wanted me there.She just needed to steal Julian, and she couldn't keep pretending to be asleep anymore.I went anyway. Even though every feeling I had was in tatters, I still wanted a final reckoning with her.The hospital room was silent. On her nightstand sat her phone and two pills.The phone screen suddenly lit up.It was a text from an unsaved number:[When are you sending the rest of my $150,000? Stop playing dead. If you don't pay up, that recording of you hiring me to run you both over three years ago goes straight to Julian Ashford tomorrow! Money or your high-society fantasy. Your choice.]Those few short lines struck me like a bolt of lightning.Blood rushed to my head and my fingers wouldn't stop trembling.Could it be that the savior I had prayed for day and night, the one I had

Three days before the wedding, a nurse called to ask me to come in for the transfer paperwork.I had barely stepped into the hallway when the shrill wail of an emergency alarm tore through the air.Several doctors burst out of a room pushing a gurney, and on it lay my mother, wearing an oxygen mask, her face drained of all color."The patient's in acute heart failure! Get her to the ER now! Page the cardiac team and prep the bypass machine!"The forms scattered from my hands. My mind went blank. White as a sheet, I chased after the gurney and planted myself outside the operating room.Julian rushed over after getting a call from the nurse.Seeing my trembling shoulders, he wrapped his arms around me tightly, his voice solemn. "Mia, I've already called in the best cardiac surgeon! Our wedding is just around the corner. Your mother will pull through and be there to bless us!"Before he could finish, a frantic set of footsteps came pounding down the hallway."Mr. Ashford! It's an emergenc

(Third person’s POV)In Serena's hospital room, after consultation and treatment by a team of specialists, her condition had stabilized.Julian finally relaxed. His thoughts turned to Mia. After all, they were childhood sweethearts who had grown up together. Her recent behavior had been erratic, but perhaps it was only because Serena's reappearance had made her feel insecure.At the thought, he softened a little. No matter what had happened with Serena, he had never intended to leave Mia.After making sure Serena was settled, Julian drove out to the suburbs himself to buy pastries and coffee from Mia's favorite shop, hoping to smooth things over.But when he got home, Mia was nowhere to be found. Even her personal belongings were gone.Every nerve in his body went taut. He started calling her frantically. Before, Mia had always picked up on the first ring. This time, the call wouldn't go through at all.Even though the worst was already forming in his mind, Julian refused to believe it

(Third person’s POV)Julian stopped dead. He grabbed the nearest nurse."Where's the patient in this room? Didn't I tell you to take good care of her? Where is she?!"The nurse was too terrified to speak. The doctor had to step in before Julian would let her go."Mr. Ashford, Miss Harper's mother passed away this morning.""You'd called all of us over to attend to Miss Blake. By the time Miss Harper came to the room looking for you, her mother's condition was already critical."Julian's mind flashed back to that morning: Mia on her knees before him, her face drenched in tears, desperate and broken. The memory of her helplessness and anguish hit him like a physical blow.His anguish turned to fury. He seized the doctor by the collar."Didn't I tell you to give her the best medication available?""She was stable before. How did she suddenly end up dying today?!"The doctor said helplessly."Mr. Ashford, we followed your instructions and took excellent care of her. But this morning Miss B

(Mia’s POV)Ethan and I left under Julian's brooding, resentful gaze.Once we were in the car, I let go of Ethan's arm."Sorry about that. I was just putting on an act for Julian so he'd stop coming after me."Ethan didn't say much. He just smiled gently.In the days that followed, I found a place to live and started my own company.Throughout the process, Ethan was there helping me every step of the way, partly because Aunt Helen had asked him to look after me, and partly because Julian kept showing up around me and Ethan was worried he might try to take me away.One day while I was working at the office, I got a call from the cemetery manager.He said a man claiming to be my husband wanted to relocate my mother's grave. He had brought a group of people and was pressuring the staff.I drove over immediately. The moment Julian saw me, his eyes lit up, a stark contrast to the coldness in mine."Julian, my mother is already gone. Can't you leave her in peace?"He rushed over and grabbed