After we both divorced at the same time, the two brothers regretted it.
Chapter 1
The night before my wedding, my fiancé’s childhood sweetheart, accidentally, or maybe not so accidentally, ran me over, leaving me bleeding out.
My best friend, Kiki, called, but my fiancé,
Zach, hung up.
He left only one text: “Rhonda has a cold, I
can’t leave her.‘
Kiki then called her boyfriend, a mega-
famous celebrity with tons of connections.
He said, “Rhonda’s sick. I need to be with
her.”
After a night in the ER, Kiki and I looked at
each other in the hospital room and said the
same thing at the same time:
“I’m not marrying him.”
We didn’t expect both men to go completely ballistic when they got our cancellation
notices.
A whole week later, Zach finally called.
It wasn’t a gentle conversation. He exploded.
“Chloe, what the hell is wrong with you? Both
families have set the date and venue, and you
just call it off? What are you trying to do?”
I tried to speak, but he cut me off with a
torrent of accusations.
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“I’ve told you a million times, Rhonda’s health
is fragile. A cold can easily become life- threatening, I have to be there for her, to make sure she’s safe! How can you be so jealous, so heartless?”
Heartless… I couldn’t help but chuckle bitterly.
The night before, I was alone, finalizing
wedding details. On my way home, a
speeding truck hit me.
Before losing consciousness, I frantically
called Zach, but only got a cold, impersonal
busy signal.
Twice.
It wasn’t until I was unconscious, my blood-
stained phone screen displaying a new
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[What?! Tell me quickly!]
Seeing no immediate response, he followed
up with:
[Are you sick? Do you have to interrupt me comforting Rhonda at this time? Don’t you know how delicate her condition is?]
Even after I woke up, Zach didn’t stop
blaming me.
Then Kiki burst into the room, snatching my
phone.
“Zach, are you insane?! Chloe was in a car
accident last night! The driver deliberately ran
her over twice! If she hadn’t gotten to the
hospital in time, she’d be dead! Can’t you tell
the difference between a cold and a car
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crash?!”
Zach scoffed on the other end.
“You’re lying to a professional, Kiki. You two
are seriously overestimating your
intelligence!”
He hung up.
Kiki’s jaw clenched, her knuckles white as she
held the phone.
Before I could comfort her, her phone rang. It
was her fiancé, also Zach’s best friend, Ethan.
“Kiki, what are you two doing? Do you realize
that because of your jealousy and lies,
Rhonda was so upset she almost had a
relapse?!”
く
“If Zach and I weren’t there, what would’ve
happened to Rhonda? Can’t you see a life is
at stake?! My family won’t let a malicious
woman like you marry into it, so you can keep
this engagement or not!”
Kiki was about to unleash a torrent of
profanity, but Ethan had already blocked her.
“I’ll be damned…”
I grabbed her hand.
“Don’t be angry, Kiki. They aren’t worth it.”
Kiki, looking at the medical equipment
attached to me, started to cry.
“Chloe, are you still in pain?”
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I shook my head, smiling weakly.
It was over. The pain stopped the moment
Zach hung up.
