Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss novel Chapter 139

Chapter 139

KISAREL.

By the time I reached Jace’s house, my makeup had already started to betray me.

I went straight upstairs before anyone could wonder what had happened, locked myself in the bathroom, and stood over the sink with both hands gripping the marble.

My reflection looked wrong under the white lights. Wet eyes, smudged mascara, and bangs sticking slightly to my forehead because my skin had gone cold and sweaty at the same time.

My phone wouldn’t stop glowing. –

Oceans.

Missed call.

Missed call.

Missed call.

Texts stacked under his name like he had suddenly remembered I existed after letting the whole world watch me stand outside his engagement like a mistake.

A wet, ugly laugh broke out of me at how stupid I looked on that queue.

This was all intentional, wasn’t it?

There was no way in the world Oceans hadn’t known that I needed an invitation to get into the venue.

He had all the time in the world to tell me, and not once had he mentioned that I’d be stopped at the entrance like a

stranger.

He could have sent me a card with a single word to anyone. He hadn’t. He’d let me show up in my best dress and find out in front of fifty people exactly how little I was worth to his world. He let me be turned away like a beggar. Because that was the truth, wasn’t it? The thing I kept circling back to between the sobs.

I pressed the heels of my hands into my eyes until they ached as I stripped and stepped into the bathtub and filled it with

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hot water.

I sat still, letting the warmth of the water do its best to soothe my ache. But it only did little to numb the pain.

I dialed Elgin again for the fifth time. It rang without an answer, and somehow that was its own small death-

who would have sat on this floor with me, gone, because I’d driven him away, too. person

the one

I was completely alone. I’d never been so aware of it.

“Elgin,” I whispered, pressing the heel of my palm against my mouth because the sound coming out of me was too ugly

“Please.”

My phone buzzed as I gripped the sink, letting the tears flow freely. And immediately, for one stupid second, my hope rose.

I thought it was Elgin. But how wrong was I?

It wasn’t.

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news det shid nepass the screen when I brought the phone to my face

Billionaire Oceans Stark Officially Engaged To Moonie Harry In Lavish Pricate Ceremony

I should not have opened God, I know I should have

But my thumb moved on its own and opened it, ever though my brain kept warming me agot it. My heart that little thing, just couldn’t follow.

The video loaded with a bright burst of camera flash and applause. Moonie stood under the lights in a silver drew that looked like it had been poured onto her body. Her hair was pinned up beautifully, diamonds trembling at her ears, her s soft and shining as Oceans took her hand.

He looked perfect… Dark suit, dark hair, and that cold, expensive stillness that made people lean in werhous

He slid the ring onto her finger, and the room erupted.

Then Moonie stepped into him.

And Oceans kissed her.

My chest closed.

He should kiss her. They were getting married… Right? So, why did it hurt so much?

It didn’t matter that the kiss was brief or that it landed near the corner of her mouth more than fully on it. From the angle, from where I sat broken on a bathroom floor, it looked intimate enough to kill something in me.

And why the hell was he looking so calm? Didn’t he say he was nervous?

Because, from where I am sitting, he looked just fine without me.

I curled forward over my own knees and cried like something inside me had finally torn all the way through, because three days ago that man had held me on a floor, while shaking in/my arms and told me his heart had already chosen me

God, I’d been so stupid. So unforgivably stupid.

I angrily wiped the tears that wouldn’t stop falling as I kept watching the video on repeat.

I dropped the phone onto the bath mat and covered my face.

Another buzz came.

I didn’t move.

Then another. And another.

Finally, I sighed and reached for it with shaking fingers.

And, of course, it was Oceans.

Oceans: ‘I’m outside Jace’s house. Come out.

Everything in me stopped.

I stared at the text until the words blurred.

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outside

He was outside.

No, no, no

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