Book 1 My Boyfriend Left Me For His Ex
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Book 1 My Boyfriend Left Me For
His Ex
Howard’s first love, Celia, had abandoned him years ago when he was gravely injured in a car accident, choosing instead to elope and marry a foreigner without a second thought.
Now, under the pretense of seeing old classmates, she had the audacity to show up at my birthday party.
“You two aren’t even married. Now that I’m back, Howard will be nothing but my loyal admirer,‘ she declared, issuing a challenge the moment we met.
I ignored her and handed out wedding invitations to my friends.
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As they gathered around to congratulate me, Celia suddenly feigned a fall, causing a commotion that ended with my castle cake toppled over.
Everyone’s attention was instantly drawn to Celia as she looked helplessly at Howard.
Howard glanced at her with an icy gaze.
“Mrs. Barnett, ten thousand dollars–how do you plan to pay for the damages?”
“I… could write an IOU and pay in
installments?” Celia stammered, clutching the hem of her dress.
“Haven’t you married a rich foreigner? Installments? Really?” someone in the crowd sneered.
“Haven’t you heard? They divorced ages ago,
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and now she’s drowning in debt!”
Laughter rippled through the crowd.
“An IOU?” Howard smirked. “Seems Mrs. Barnett hasn’t changed a bit–still fond of making empty promises.”
“You have one month to transfer the damages to my fiancée’s account, or prepare to hear from my lawyer.”
Howard’s tone remained frigid, his gaze a mixture of contempt and indifference. Yet I couldn’t help but hear the echoes of their past in each humiliating word he spoke.
Celia and I had been college classmates, with Howard a year ahead of us.
Their love story had been nothing short of melodramatic–he’d been in a severe
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accident and nearly ended up in a coma; she’d left to marry a rich foreigner, leaving him behind.
Then, Howard recovered, became CEO of a public company, and rose above his past.
And me? I’d become his partner in business -and, luckily, his fiancée.
Howard rarely mentioned his first love around me, and I tactfully refrained from asking.
Until one day, while packing up his old house before moving, I accidentally broke a pair of handmade mugs.
Their exquisite craftsmanship hinted that they had been lovingly molded by hand, and Howard had kept them carefully in a delicate box.
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“Sorry, I didn’t know there was something fragile inside. Were these a gift from first love?” I joked, hoping to lighten the mood.
A flicker of sorrow crossed his eyes as he stared blankly at the shattered pieces on the floor.
Then, without hesitation, he picked up the fragments with his bare hands and threw them into the trash.
Watching his hands bleed, my heart trembled.
“Was it from your ex?” I asked softly.
Howard nodded.
I helped him bandage his wounds and
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quietly excused myself.
That evening, for the first time, Howard opened up to me about his breakup with Celia.
“After the car accident, I was in a coma for three months. When I woke up, I learned that on the second day of my accident, she had already eloped with a wealthy foreign student.”
“I didn’t go looking for her. Someone that heartless wasn’t worth any more of my time.”
I listened quietly as he spoke, his expression as calm as if recounting someone else’s story.
Yet later that night, when I got up to get a glass of water, I found Howard alone in his study, clutching the broken pieces, crying
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silently.
It felt as if my heart had been hollowed out.
