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The Remains of Summer) Chapter 1
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“Ms. Price, this is the contract for the staged death service you’ve booked
with us. The date of death is set for two weeks from now, on your wedding day.
The cause of death will be suicide by drowning. Please sign here to confirm.”
line.
Amelia Price nodded, her hand steady as she signed her name on the dotted
The city bustled around her as she walked home. Glancing up, she saw the
massive billboard replaying the video of Ethan Carter’s proposal. He knelt,
normally stoic, his hand trembling as he held the ring. Tears welled in his eyes
when she said “yes.”
Two girls beside Amelia sighed dreamily, clutching each other.“OMG,
Ethan is so in love with Amelia!”
“Total fairytale romance. They’ve been childhood sweethearts forever. He
confessed his love at seventeen, designed a diamond tiara for her twentieth,
calling her his princess. At twenty–three, when she was in that car crash, he
almost gave his own blood dry to save her. At twenty–six, the whole world
watched him propose. He’s the ultimate husband material!”
Amelia tuned them out, a bitter taste rising in her throat. Everyone envied
their love. Everyone believed Ethan was hopelessly devoted.
No one knew he’d been keeping a social media influencer, Chloe, in a luxury
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The gut–wrenching realization that his late–night “business trips” were
spent entangled with Chloe felt like a knife twisting in her heart.
The explicit photos blurred in her vision. She remembered being fifteen, her
parents‘ divorce tearing her world apart. Ethan had stormed in, grabbed her hand,
and declared, “If they don’t want you, I do!”
From that day, he’d showered her with affection. He’d broken three ribs
fighting for her, remembered every period cramp, filled his social media with her
pictures. His buddies called him whipped.
When he slipped the engagement ring on her finger, tears streamed down his face as he begged her to love him forever, to never leave him. He swore he’d
go insane if she did.
He was the one who claimed he couldn’t live without her, yet he was the one
are you out here alone?”
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