Eight Years of Maybe One Day of I Do—Bride Swapped Deal With It novel Chapter 124

Chapter 6

“Auroral”

“Where the hell do you think you’re going?!”

Julian and I had fought before. We’d argued, given each other the silent treatment, even talked about breaking up.

The first time we almost split was right when his career was taking off, Some fresh-out-of-college intern had her eyes on him. She wouldn’t leave him alone. Even said she’d be fine being the other woman.

She came straight to me and said.

“Love doesn’t care who came first. There’s no such thing as being a homewrecker-only people who don’t try hard enough or appreciate what they have.”

Back then, I just looked at her young, naive face and made Julian choose.

He picked me without hesitation. But he still went behind my back and got her a job at one of his partner companies. When I found out, we had our first real breakup.

I didn’t contact him for two whole months.

Julian called me crying, saying he knew he messed up. Even when our friends said I was being heartless, I couldn’t accept that our relationship had been tainted. I didn’t want to forgive him. So he knelt outside my parents’ house on a snowy night and refused to leave until I came out.

That’s when Lilac, who’d always hated Julian suddenly said.

“You’ve made your point.”

M

She said.

“If I were you and some guy did all this for me? I’d run straight into his arms.”

I thought Lilac didn’t want me to lose Julian.

Maybe she’d already fallen for him back then. Maybe I just never saw it.

I watched Julian break down, sobbing, saying he knew he was wrong. Begging me to forgive him. He even grabbed my hand and made me slap him across the face. He cried.

“Aurora, you can hit me, yell at me, whatever you want. Just don’t leave. Please don’t leave me, okay?”

“Aurora.”

“Please.”

He held my hand so tight.

Like he was terrified of losing me. Like if I walked away, he’d fall apart all over again.

I looked at him now and felt nothing but disgust.

“If you knew it’d come to this, why’d you do it in the first place?”

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I stared at him, my voice flat and cold.

“You said it yourself. You said your mom’s affair tore you apart. You said you’d never put me through what you went through. You said you understood the value of a relationship better than anyone. Julian, you threw me away.”

Maybe we should’ve ended it back then. When his loyalty wavered the first time.

Instead, I gave him another chance to hurt me.

“Julian.”

“We’re done.”

I felt his grip on me go rigid. He stood there frozen, like a kid who got caught doing something wrong. I yanked my arm free, grabbed my stuff,

and turned to leave-

And ran straight into Lilac.

Out of the two of them, Lilac was the one who hurt me most.

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