Book–Chapter 1
When Vincent Stratakos and I were sitting at the city hall waiting to get married, he was called away by a phone call.
He said, “We will get married another day. I have something urgent to attend to right now.” Then he hurriedly left.
I was left alone at the city hall with couples all around.
It was because his beloved childhood sweetheart, Yaritza Guth fell down the stairs and sprained her ankle.
After a while, he sent another message.
“Yaritza is seriously injured. I have to accompany her, let’s pospone the wedding tomorrow.”
This was just one of thousands of times when he abandoned me and chose Yaritza.
I didn’t get jealous, have a quarrel, and then compromise like before.
The staff sympathetically looked at me and asked, “Miss, are you still going to proceed with this?”
I took out my phone and sent a text message to the man who owed me a promise.
“Yes.”
I sat on the rest chair in the lobby of the city hall, looking at the reply on my phone.
“Wait for me, I will be there in twenty minutes.”
While my mind was wandering, my mom called.
“Reina, have you and Vincent gotten married? Come to Oceanside Hotel, let’s have a meal together with the families.”
Hearing that, I remained calm.
“Mom, we didn’t get married. Yaritza twisted her ankle, so Vincent went to the hospital to accompany her.”
It was not very difficult for me, because there had been too many times, and I had gotten used to it.
My mom got furious as soon as she heard it.
She had been a dominant figure in the business circle for many years, and it had been a long time since she had displayed such anger.
“Change the date? He can’t change the date just because he wants to. We have invited so many
influential friends. What the hell is he thinking? What if this gets out? He doesn’t consider your…”
There was a sudden
pause.
Suddenly, she remembered my persistence and compromises over the past few years.
She sighed.
“Reina, what do you think? I’ll respect your decision.”
I couldn’t hold on the calmness when hearing these words from mom.
I hung up the phone.
Over the years
him.
years, I had done many foolish things for Vincent and compromised many principles for
We met, got to know each other, and fell in love during our time in college. We had a wonderful college life together.
We are both local people. After graduation, we started discussing the matter of engagement, and everything went so smoothly. It made me feel like I was the happiest person in the world, until Yaritza appeared.
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