All Chapters of When Meeting Her Parents Went Horribly Wrong: Chapter 11 - Chapter 15

"You're all Ruth thinks about now. But I used to be the one she cared about the most. You're the one who stole her back from me!" Marvin roared.I found the whole thing absurd."Marvin, I don't want Ruth anymore. If you want to pick up the trash I've thrown away, be my guest."That only made him angrier. "What gives you the right to call her trash?"I looked at him. "Then go find her yourself. See if she still wants you."His face went pale, as though I'd struck a nerve.The next second, he suddenly pulled a stack of photos from his bag and hurled them at me."Don't get too smug, Cedric. So what if you were together for eight years? All those times she was with me, you were sitting at home waiting for her like an idiot."The photos scattered across the ground.Some showed them at the beach. Others showed them shopping together. In one, Ruth was tying Marvin's shoelaces. In another, Marvin was resting his head on her shoulder.Every picture was painful to look at. But strangel

Ruth no longer looked like the confident, successful woman she'd once been. The moment she saw me coming out with my suitcase, she practically ran toward me."Cedric, where are you going?"I didn't answer.She reached for my luggage, but I stepped away."Don't touch it," I snapped.Her hand froze mid-air, and her eyes began to redden. "I just wanted to see you off.""I don't need you to do that.""Cedric, I won't bother you anymore. I just want to ask you one last question," she said, her voice trembling uncontrollably. "If Marvin had never come into the picture, would we still have gotten married?"I looked at her and suddenly found the question incredibly sad.Even now, she still thought Marvin was the only problem. But what had finally broken me was never just the presence of another man. It was the way she'd abandoned me time and again whenever she chose someone else over me."No," I answered.Her expression crumbled. "Why not?"I looked at her calmly. "Because even i