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Before everyone else could react, I did something shocking. “Ahh!”
Cecilia screamed as she tried to step back, yet I didn’t let her. I grabbed her long hair with one hand while slapping her in the face with my high heel.
It didn’t take long before her mouth swelled up. She screamed in great pain and couldn’t help but cry.
As I was teaching Cecilia a lesson, she kept looking at Antonio for help.
Yet Antonio did nothing to interfere as she was being dramatic.
Antonio even tried to put my high heel on for me after I dropped Cecilia to the ground as if she were trash.
“Grace, please don’t be mad.
“I know you’re not what Cecilia says you are.
“I finally understand. Cecilia is the reason why we’re where we
are now.
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“I promise that I won’t pity her anymore. I’ll dismiss her once I’m back in the office. OK?
“So, please. Don’t break up with me, please. Grace, I’m truly sorry.”
Having glanced at Cecilia’s hopeless face, I took off the other shoe and smashed Antonio with it in the face.
“It won’t work. Even if you fire Cecilia 100 times, it won’t change the fact that we’ve already broken up.”
With that, I was about to leave. Yet Antonio stopped me by grabbing my dress.
His hands were trembling. Honestly speaking, I never saw him so helpless before.
“Please don’t leave. Could you please tell me what wrong I did? Why did you have to break up with me?
“Is it true that you’re with this guy now?
“Grace, I don’t believe you. You won’t be so cruel to me.”
“Let go of me.”
He shook his head stubbornly. He then said with a hoarse voice,
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“Grace, look at me.
“Unless you look into my eyes and tell me that you love Alonso instead of me, I won’t believe you”
As he wished, I looked into his desperate red eyes and gave him what he asked for.
I then said to him word by word.
“Antonio Kaufman, I don’t love you anymore.
“And I won’t fall in love with you again in the future. Do you understand?”
Antonio could no longer stand. He kneeled in front of me and forced a smile.
“I don’t care, Grace, as long as I love you.
“You don’t have to love me. As long as you don’t break up with me, I can do anything including killing…”
I responded peacefully.
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“I don’t need your love. It’s worthless.”
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“Don’t ever pester me again, or I’ll call the police.”
Having heard that, Antonio blinked his eyes and tears flooded.
“Grace, please don’t treat me like this. I know I shouldn’t have hurt your feelings. I shouldn’t have ignored how much you loved
- me.
“Why can’t you spare me one last chance to make up for what I did wrong? I swear I’ll show you that I can make changes for you. I…” I stopped his monologue and said, “Antonio, it’s too late now.”
I then got into Alonso’s car, leaving Antonio alone. In the car, I apologized to Alonso for all the trouble I caused him.
Yet Alonso smiled, not taking it seriously.
“Call me next time you’re in such a situation.” He then drove me home.
“Grace, if Antonio comes to bother you again, call me. Anytime.” I nodded with a smile and agreed to have dinner with him next weekend.
After a month, I received a call from an unknown number. It was Antonio.
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He sounded weak, seeming to have fallen ill. He never stopped coughing during the phone call.
“Grace, please don’t hang up. I only have one question for you. Have you ever been in love with me?”
“Nope.” With that, I hung up the phone and went on watching the reality show on TV.
Two days later, I learned from a chat group of my college colleagues that Antonio’s company suffered from arson. He was caught in the fire and ended up in the hospital, struggling to live.
Cecilia did it.
Cecilia was furious about being dismissed. She went crazy and locked the door of the building, trying to kill Antonio together with herself.
I then read the report from the police.
That was when I realized that Antonio dialed my number in the fire. “Yuck! What bad luck!“,
I mumbled in front of the cinema, dráwing Alonso’s attention. “What did you say, Grace?”
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“Nothing.”
I then closed the group chat and turned to Alonso’s phone. “Have you got the tickets yet? What time is the movie?”
“Yep. It’ll start in half an hour. We have enough time to buy you your favorite milk tea.” Alonso took me to do downstairs.
On our way, he also bought me some toys and snacks. I felt like we were not here for the movie but for a picnic.
After watching the movie, we went to the parking lot. Alonso asked me to open the trunk for him. When I saw the flowers and balloons there, I was not surprised at all. Yet Alonso seemed quite nervous.
“Grace, would you like to be my girlfriend?”
I held his hand without hesitation. “Sure.”
In this long and bumpy journey called life, there’s always someone waiting for us, just for us.
Be patient.
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Maybe he’s right there at the next corner.
The end.
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