All Chapters of He Chose Her for Our Bridal Photos, So I Left: Chapter 1 - Chapter 9

I sat in the dressing room reviewing the travel plans Delia had sent me. By the time I'd sent her my ID and the paperwork she needed, it was dark outside.Nathaniel and Yvonne had come inside too and started choosing photos.Yvonne held Nathaniel's hand and whined playfully about how many photos there were. Looking through them was giving her a headache, she said, so she asked him to choose for her.Nathaniel agreed. He rested a hand on her head and told her to get some rest, then sat down at the computer. He studied each photo carefully before making his choices.My eyes stung.So he did have that kind of patience. Just not for me.Yesterday, I'd tried on dress after dress and narrowed it down to two. I couldn't choose between them, so I'd asked what he thought. He'd been lying on the couch and hadn't even looked up."If you can't even choose a dress, let's just not get married."Once he'd finished choosing the unedited photos, Nathaniel noticed me watching.He rubbed between his eyeb

The photo I'd treasured for seven years hit the floor and broke apart. My eyes stung despite myself.Those seven years felt like one long joke.I still remembered moving in when the place was completely empty.Nathaniel had told me this would always be my home and I could decorate it however I liked.And now he was shielding Yvonne behind him and screaming at me to get out of his house.I wiped my eyes and looked at him."Are you sure you want to throw me out?"Nathaniel went quiet.Yvonne grabbed his hand, pleading with him. "Nathaniel, don't do anything rash."Then she came running over and took hold of my hands."Chloe, all of this is because of me."I'll do anything you want if it means you and Nathaniel will make up.""Then get out," I said calmly."Never come near him again, and we'll be fine."Yvonne froze, her eyes instantly filling with tears."All right. I'm leaving right now."She turned as she said it, took a few steps, and swayed.Nathaniel caught her immediately."Chloe S

Nathaniel's POVNathaniel cleared the dishes before he opened the front door."Do you know what you did wrong?"Nobody in the hallway answered.Nathaniel frowned and stepped out.The cold air cut through him. Everything was eerily quiet.The things he'd thrown out last night lay scattered across the floor, filthy and ruined by the wind and rain.He searched every corner of the hallway, even the stairwell, but found no sign of Chloe.And then Nathaniel panicked.Yvonne came out with a coat and put it over his shoulders."Chloe's gone too far. Instead of waiting in the hallway, she's hiding to make you worry. If you ask me, she's doing it on purpose."Nathaniel caught her hand as if it could steady him. He couldn't help asking, "You think she's doing it on purpose?""Obviously."Yvonne clasped his hand in return."Women love keeping you on the hook. She didn't get her bridal photos yesterday, then she refused to apologize and got thrown out. She's humiliated and angry."She wants you to

He'd lost a lot of weight, and there was stubble all over his jaw.His eyes were bloodshot, as if he hadn't slept properly in a long time.His gaze sharpened when he saw me, and his eyes lit up.He came running over and reached for my hands. "Chloe."I quietly stepped back, out of his reach.His hand froze in midair, then closed. He looked at me, hurt."You don't want me anymore?"In the light of the sunset over the water, he looked even more haggard.I looked at him and said nothing.During those first nights after I left him, I thought about him constantly. I remembered every kind thing he'd done for me, every little detail of our time together.I'd wonder what he was doing, whether he ever thought about me, and whether he regretted losing me.Getting over him was brutal. Night after night, I couldn't sleep.If he'd shown up in front of me then, I'd have cried and forgiven him.Time had a way of dulling even the deepest pain.Now, looking at him felt like passing a wolf I'd never met