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The wedding had reached the ring exchange.
My husband, Adrian Blake, stood there, but it was Sienna Lowell, his beloved, who appeared in a wedding dress, standing right in front of him. She looked at him and asked, “Adrian, you once promised me that if I ever wore a wedding dress, you’d marry me in the next life. Does that still hold true?”
In an instant, Adrian’s eyes reddened.
He pulled Sienna into a tight embrace and said, his voice thick with emotion, “Yes. In the next life, you will be my bride, and only you.”
Sienna shot me a smug look.
“Eleanor, you’ll have to take good care of Adrian for me.”
Guests murmured among themselves, eager to see me make a fool of myself.
I stood there, watching the two of them kiss passionately, completely oblivious to everything around them.
With a smile, I shoved my bouquet into Sienna’s hands. “If that’s the case, why don’t you just marry him?
“You’re just the other woman. No matter how sweetly you speak,
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it won’t change the truth.”
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Eight years of marriage, and I swallowed my bitterness, bending over backward to please the Blake family, all in the hopes of saving this loveless, business–driven marriage.
Then, unexpectedly, I got pregnant, and that was when the Blake family finally agreed to give me a wedding.
I thought that with a child on the way, Adrian might finally come around.
But right now, he was still holding Sienna, the one he had always cherished, kissing her as if the world didn’t matter.
My heart twisted in pain as I bit my lip, trying to hold back the
tears.
In that moment, I couldn’t take it anymore. Why did I always have to sacrifice for everyone else?
Because of my words, Sienna went pale, almost collapsing into Adrian’s arms.
“Adrian… I feel so sick. Is it my condition acting up?”
Adrian’s face turned pale as he scooped her up and rushed out of the hotel.
Before he left, he turned to me, furiously shouting, “Eleanor,
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your jealoury is completely irrational. It anything happens to ena, 1 or 1 most forgive you?
Beither Adrian’s parents not my own father could stop him.
The camera flashed relentlessly, and the priest stood awkwardly benda me.
My Lathan slappetite
face, ha anger erupting “You worthless fool! Can’t even keep your husband.”
*tch that, he told me to think things through and left me standing there, alone.
Adnan’a molbar shot me a cold look. “Deanor, don’t blame me for saying this, but why are you throwing a tantrum in front of everyone? How you’ve driven Adrian away, and all anyone going to do ulaghat both our families”
To Adnan’s mother, being married to him meant swallowing all your fort and never humiliating him publicly.
1t that was what man expected of me, then I wouldn’t marry him..
As the gumickled out, I walked outside, clutching my wedding dress, watching the cars drive away by one
The storm was fierce, lightning flashing, rain pouring.
Behind me, the once–burtling banquet hall stood wpty.
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When the Blake family’s car finally drove off, my father’s car pulled up in front of me.
The back window rolled down, revealing my father’s grim expression. The hurt I had been holding him all at once.
I bit back the team, my voice trembling as I said, “Dad…”
Just reached for the dour handle, I heard the sound of locking.
Ifrom in dubelist.
My father’s votes was cold
d with fury. “Eleanor, this marriage was bought with your mother’s life. You’d better reflect on yourself and find a way to win Adrian back.
“You’re carrying his child now. No matter what, Stanna can’t compete with you.”
I couldn’t babava my ears. “Dad, what are you saying?”
Hagored me, ordered the driver to start the car, and with the window rolling back up, the car sped off.
The hem of my wedding dress got soaked by the rain, and as I watched the car disappear into the distance, the tears Id been holding back finally began to fall. The hotel was on top of a mountain with no signal or Laxis.
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I borrowed an umbrella from a staff member, noticing the pity in her eyes as she handed it to me.
Holding the umbrella and my heavy wedding dress, I trudged down the mountain in my high heels.
The rain soled me through, and every step became harder than the last.
The beals of my shoe dug into my feet, leaving them raw and blooding.
Finally, halfway down the mountain, I got a signal on my phone. A docen med calls from Adrian popped up.
There was also a text. He wanted to know why I couldn’t stand Sanna, inating she was just a friend to him.
I couldn’t help but laugh bitterly,
Adrian and I had been childhood sweethearts, and Sienna was just a poor girl I had helped back in high school. When I was right, Adriance to visit my family.
But then a fire broke out.by mother pushed him out with her last strength, sacrificing herself in the fam
Her Last words to him were, “Adrian, take care of Eleanor
We had game engaged, and he had promised me he would
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always take care of me
But in college, hemat Sa
She took advantage of my kind, worming her way batwem us until she captured b
kun heart.
The person who had once promised to protect me now had someone else he wanted to protect more.
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