Chapter 9
Chapter 9
Holy SHIT!”
Heard Amber’s the town bicycle-rides everyone! Figured Jason knew he was just next in line. Somebody inally had the guts to wake this man up.”
Nuking his reputation at his own party? Cold-blooded. His business cred is toast.”
Who’s taking bets on his new nickname? ‘Sloppy Seconds’ or ‘Captain Cuckold”?”
ason’s face darkened with each second.
mber went ghost-white.
perfect yin-yang of public humiliation.
ison ripped open another package.
his one contained a recording-no video, but explosive enough.
mber’s unmistakable voice:
ason’s completely whipped. Once we drive a wedge between him and Lily, we can swallow his company
hole.”
After that, I’ll make my mom accept you. Then we’ll get married.”
[er laugh cut through Jason like a knife to the heart.
Yes, baby. Mrs. and Mr. happily-ever-after!”
he truth was brutally obvious.
ason had been an orphanage.
At seven, he thought adoption meant family. Instead, he’d walked into hell.
His “parents” treated him like a live-in servant for their son.
Hungry, cold, and beaten whenever their precious son complained.
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Later…
His adoptive family died in a crash.
Jason never mourned..
He felt nothing but sweet, blessed freedom.
He even laughed at their funeral.
Everyone called him ungrateful dog.
He shut down emotionally until he met me-a girl who knew what real love felt like.
I thawed his frozen heart, showed him connection was possible, and he chose me as his future.
Then disaster struck.
Someone heard his adoptive parents had left him insurance money. They kidnapped him for ransom.
saved him, survived a nightmare, then brushed off my trauma with a smile:”I’m fine.”
That moment changed him.
He swore to cherish me forever, shield me from harm, keep me safe
He believed I was his soulmate, his missing piece, his forever.
Now, watching Amber’s mask slip away, he suddenly remembered all my breakdowns these past months.
My tears. My begging.
That question I kept asking:
‘Jason, do you still love me at all?”
The realization crushed him.
So this is what betrayal feels like.
The pain hit every nerve ending at once, flooding his system until his legs gave out,
“Is Jason having a stroke or something?”
“Why’s he sitting on the floor?”
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“Has he lost it?”
Everyone thought he was heartbroken over precious Amber’s betrayal.
They were wrong.
Staring at Amber’s lies laid bare, he knew instantly this was my revenge.
He’d wandered down the wrong path, and by the time he thought to turn back-I was already gone.
He collapsed, throwing everything aside, and tore out of the ballroom.
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I didn’t care to see Jason’s face when truth finally hit him.
But Kate lives for the tea.
Kate couldn’t stop laughing:
‘That spineless weasel lost his shit! Ran out of his own party like his ass was on fire.”
‘Everyone’s saying he’s crushed over his precious side-piece!”
‘God. What a total doormat!”
When I didn’t respond, Kate nudged me.
‘Earth to Lily!”
Then…
Her jaw dropped.
Because Jason was standing right there.
Still in his rumpled tux, looking like absolute hell-stubble, bloodshot eyes, tie gone.
‘Lily.”
Jason never cries. Ever.
In ten years, I’d seen tears exactly twice-after my kidnapping and at Mom’s funeral.
Strike three now.
He crumbled before my eyes.
“I fucked up.”
“I fucked everything up. All of it. You were right-I was wrong.
“Amber meant nothing-it was all ego. Just wanted to hurt you back.”
“Kept telling myself you wouldn’t really leave. Even after you sold your shares, I thought you were bluffing.”
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I thought you’d come running back if I pushed hard enough! If I made you jealous enough! If I hurt you
nough!”
But I was the one who chased you first, I was the one who swore forever.”
Lily…”
ason-who’d spent his entire life building walls of pride-shattered completely.
ight there in public, he dropped to his knees, sobbing like the abandoned child he once was.
used to melt whenever Jason hurt.
ven a furrowed brow would send me scrambling to make him feel better, dropping my own needs to
omfort him.
ut comforting gets exhausting.
Vatching him fall apart now, I felt nothing but hollow emptiness.
Jason.”
met his desperate gaze with nothing behind my eyes.
We can’t go back.”
rom the moment you chose her.
rom your first failure to defend me.
rom every time you made me the villain.
rom each instance you let her parade around our home like she owned it.
Ve were already over.
hat day, Jason blubbered and begged for hours.
Even Kate-who lives for drama-was rolling her eyes.
When it finally clicked that I wasn’t buying what he was selling…
He left around midnight.
Kate snickered about his newest nickname around the office.
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“Apparently they’re calling him “The Waterworks’ behind his back! His reputation is toast!”
‘Liiiily,” she mimicked, “I’m sooooo sorry, Lily!”
Kate’s mockery had become background noise.
ignored her and pointed to a map with several cities circled.
Where should we start fresh?”
Her face brightened.
Sugar mama! You’re finally noticing me! Are you offering to be my sponsor?”
he made me laugh despite everything.
Before leaving town…
One last rumor reached me.
The mighty Jason Miller had cashed out his entire empire, transferred every penny to his ex-wife’s account,
hen camped outside his ex-secretary’s apartment for two straight weeks.
He finally caught his ex-secretary alone and leaped from the bushes, plunging a knife into her stomach.
Holy crap!”
Cate thrust her phone in my face, news alert blaring.
Turns out your ex is a full-on psycho.”
stared at my bank account with its new string of zeros, then at the arrest video on Kate’s phone while she
continued.
Thank God we got out when we did. Remember how we went off on him? Slapped him, cursed him out? He probably wanted to murder us too!”
‘Dodged a bullet there!”
Kate clutched her chest dramatically.
“Guess karma handled him for us.”
My phone buzzed.
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A pre-scheduled text appeared.
From Jason:
“Lily-you saved me that night when I had nothing. You breathed life into me when I was drowning. Everything I built belongs to you. Always did.”
Later, I heard the news.
ason was gone. Suicide.
They found him peaceful, smiling, like he’d finally found relief.
just watched the sunlight stream through my new apartment windows, feeling strangely light.
My life, finally, was exactly where it needed to be.
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