Chapter 1
The day after I–confessed my feelings to Patrick Huxley, he got engaged to someone else, Eva Caylor.
He comforted his fiancée, saying, “Georgia is just the orphaned daughter of my dad’s friend. I’ve only ever seen her as a little sister.”
To me, he said, “Your feelings only make things awkward. Please let me go.”
Eventually, I respected his choice, changed my college plans, moved to Orlando, and never returned.
But later, at my wedding, he showed up crying, eyes red, begging me to leave with him.
“Why didn’t you come yesterday?”
After looking for him all day, I finally found him outside a restaurant.
With swollen, tear–filled eyes, I glared at Patrick, my gaze full of anger and wounded pride.
Behind him, a crowd gathered, all peeking over his shoulder to get a look
at me.
Someone whispered, “Is that Patrick’s adopted sister?”
“Yeah, I heard she likes him. She tried to confess yesterday, come. It was so embarrassing for her.”
but he didn’t
Patrick rubbed his temples, clearly annoyed. “You all go in first,” he told
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them.
Soon, it was just the two of us there.
Seeing how puffy my eyes were, he asked the staff for an ice pack.
He then gently pressed it against my eyes.
“You’re too grown–up to be crying like this,” he said softly.
I pulled away and looked him straight in the eyes. I asked, “Why didn’t you show up yesterday?”
“I..
“Rick, there you are!”
A soft female voice cut him off.
She held onto his arm sweetly and gave me a curious look. “You must be Georgia. Rick talks about you all the time.”
The moment I saw her, I felt completely humiliated.
She looked graceful and classy, and her bodycon dress showed off her curves perfectly.
In contrast, I had a short, tomboy hairstyle and was dressed in a plain white T–shirt with shorts.
My hands nervously tugged at the hem of my clothes.
She looked away, turned back to Patrick, and smiled. “Rick, the engagement party is about to start. You’re the groom–to–be, you can’t be late.”
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Patrick gently took her hand and gave her a warm smile. “I know, Eva. You go ahead. I’ll join you in a bit.”
Once she walked away, I just stared, stunned.
“You’re getting engaged?”
Patrick seemed to relax a little and replied calmly, “Yeah, I am.”
My eyes stung even more, the puffiness from crying only getting worse.
It took me a while before I finally spoke.
“Then what about me?”
He kept checking his watch like he was in a hurry, and said sharply, “How many times do I have to explain?
“I’ve always seen you as a younger sister. You crossed a line.”
Tears caught in my throat as I struggled to speak. “But… you told me you like me.”
“I was tipsy that night and messed up the numbers,” he explained.
“Then why did you bring me to your side and chase away every guy who tried to get close to me?” I asked.
Patrick frowned, and a flicker of regret showed in his gaze. “If I had known you’d cling to me like this, I wouldn’t have shown any sympathy.”
“Sympathy?”
A faint smirk appeared on my lips.
While I chuckled, tears streamed down even faster.
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I clutched the hem of his shirt, my tears soaking into his chest. “Can you really say you don’t have any feelings for me?”
I stared straight into his eyes, hoping to catch some warmth in them.
But he only pushed my hands away, letting fall hard onto the floor.
me
My knee got scraped by the edge of the table, and red blood trickled. down my leg, leaving a red streak.
Patrick only looked at the part of his shirt I had crushed in my hand, his face tight with a frown.
“Not once,” he said.
