Chapter 22
“You’re not Grace? How could this be?” Antonio insisted, stepping forward, trying to get a better look at her. But no matter how much he struggled, he couldn’t break free from the three security guards.
“Grace, have them let go of me! I want to talk to you properly.”
Grace thought for a moment and did as he asked.
Immediately, Antonio stepped forward, controlling the urge to reach for her, and said, “I know you’re angry with me. That’s why you pretend not to be Grace. And I know you only said you wanted to marry Lewis to draw my attention.”
“I’m already done with Janelle. She never truly loved me. Only now do I understand how important you are to me,” Antonio continued.
“I was wrong.”
“Come back to me.”
Antonio was trying to win Grace back with his heartfelt confession, yet Lewis wouldn’t let him. He coldly snorted and said, “Isn’t it a bit shameless to steal someone else’s fiancée?”
Antonio was about to step forward to confront him when Grace immediately stopped him.
“I can handle this myself,” Grace said with unwavering calm, her eyes full of determination.
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Lewis hesitated as he held her hand, trying to say something. Yet in the end, he did not say anything.
“Don’t you trust me? The past is in the past.” Grace gave him a faint smile, standing on tiptoe to kiss his cheek.
After Lewis left, Grace immediately stopped smiling and turned coldly to Antonio. “I won’t go with you.”
“I don’t blame you,” Antonio replied quietly.
“I’ve been with you for three years, having enjoyed many privileges. I guess, in a way, I should thank you,” Grace said in a tone so calm it felt like she was speaking to a stranger.
Antonio suddenly broke down in tears.
“Janelle never loved me. You neither, right? Was everything only in my imagination?” Antonio asked, his voice shaking.
Grace felt so wronged. Janelle’s deception could not be more obvious. Her love performance was definitely flawed. How could he not even tell true love from fake affection?
However, Grace would never cry for him again.
Finally, she smiled and said, “I did love you.”
“In the past three years, I’ve often thought about being with you forever. Even though you never said anything sweet to cheer me up, and never openly acknowledged our relationship to anyone, I still wanted to be with you.”
Antonio’s expression changed in an instant.
His face turned pale, as though he would shatter any second.
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“I had been secretly in love with you for a long time. After I found out you had your heart broken, I tried everything to get closer to you. So when you gave me the key to your house, I was truly happy.”
“I told myself that it didn’t matter if you didn’t love me as deeply as I loved you. I would love you more, and one day, you’d realize it.”
Antonio’s body swayed in the cold winter wind. It seemed that he would collapse at any moment.
“I gave you many chances. If you had taken just one of them, I would never have left.”
Suddenly, blood appeared at the corner of Antonio’s mouth.
It was then that he realized that one could cough up blood when they were in great sorrow. No wonder Grace had lost so much weight during that time. She must have been suffering physically from the emotional toll.
“Janelle wasn’t the main reason. I’m not coming back because I don’t love you anymore.”
This was the final verdict Grace gave Antonio.
When Antonio heard that, it felt as if he had lost his soul.
He stopped speaking and slowly turned around, walking away step by step.
Grace didn’t watch him go. Once she finished speaking, she immediately ran to find Lewis.
What she didn’t know was that Antonio collapsed after coughing up blood around the next corner, falling onto his
