Chapter 1
The day I left, Javon ran three red lights just to catch up with me.
He kept texting me like crazy.
“I was only messing around with her. Why are you acting like this?”
wed. Is that true?”
“They are saying you’re getting
“I’m sorry. I won’t upset you again. Please
“I’ll order that wedding dress right now.”
just come back.”
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ས་དང་པར་ནད་འའབད་ར་
མ་བན་ཆས་ལས་དང་
“Don’t do this to me. I’m going crazy.”
“Please, pick up the phone!”
The pleading in his messages tugged at my heart, but the feeling faded almost as quickly as it came.
For days, I kept blocking one number after another, until I finally just pulled
out my
SIM card and replaced it.
I heard that Javon wasn’t doing well and had become unstable, but that wasn’t my concern anymore.
Once, I really believed we’d spend the rest of our lives side by side.
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In the seventh year of her relationship with Javon Bradford, Jaelynn Norton was ready to get married.
She had already chosen a wedding dress, just waiting for him to ask.
She’d been in love with him from their school days to the working world, loving him so much she lost herself and became just his shadow.
A few days earlier, rumors had started making the rounds in their social circle.
People said Javon was getting close to a college girl he was sponsoring, and friends warned Jaelynn to keep an eye out.
She brushed it off at first, until the day she went for the pre–marital checkup at the hospital.
Javon was supposed to be in a meeting, but instead, he was there with that girl, accompanying her for a physical.
When the nurse drew the girl’s blood, she whimpered in pain, and Javon leaned in, his voice soft, his face full of worry.
Jaelynn’s hands trembled. She crumpled her checkup form and pulled out her phone.
“Mom, I’ll go on that blind date.”
Her mother’s surprise was clear. “Will you even have the time? Being a secretary keeps you so busy.”
“I’m not a secretary anymore. I transferred to a different department. Please set it up.”
After hanging up, Jaelynn walked out of the hospital, picked up the gift bag Javon had ordered at the mall, and headed straight for the hotel.
The banquet hall was lavishly decorated. It was a special celebration for Shayla McDowell’s new job, and it was organized by Javon himself.
Shayla was surrounded by people, a crown on her head and a white Dior dress on, looking like a princess.
Colleagues teased her, urging her to toast with Javon.
Blushing, Shayla slipped her arm through Javon’s. She could barely hold her liquor, and after half a glass, she collapsed against Javon in a drunken daze.
Just then, someone spotted Jaelynn walking in. Their expression tightened.
“Jaelynn.”
The lively chatter died instantly.
Shayla, cheeks flushed, tried to pull away from Javon’s arms, but he only held her closer, completely unfazed by Jaelynn’s presence.
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“Why are you late?” he asked, skipping right over the fact that he’d skipped their pre–marital checkup.
“It rained, and traffic was bad,” Jaelynn said with a polite smile.
Javon reached for the gift bag she was carrying.
“Shay, I promised you a gift when you started your internship at the Bradford Group.”
Shayla opened the box inside and gasped. A diamond ring sparkled back at her.
“It’s my favorite style. Thank you, Jay.”
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“Let me put it on you,” he said, slipping the r
ring onto her finger.
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His face turned serious, as if he were proposing to her.
ure the moment.
Colleagues nearby were taking photos to capture the
“After the toast and now with the ring, Shay is under Mr. Bradford’s protection.”
Javon wrapped an arm around Shayla’s waist and murmured into her ear, “How are you going
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Shayla rose on tiptoe to kiss his cheek.
With a satisfied smile, Javon turned to the others. “From now on, Shay is my secretary.”
Jaelynn’s breath caught.”
Memories rushed in all at once.
When Javon was seven, he moved into the house next door.
The very first time they met, he told her she was beautiful.
He loved holding her hand, telling her, “Jael, I’ll protect you.”
From then on, he never let anyone pick on her.
He wouldn’t even let other boys look at her, and dating was completely off–limits.
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On the night she came of age, after a single glass of wine, she asked him, “Why won’t you let me date? I’m grown up now,
Javon had backed her against the wall, his voice low and unyielding. “If you’re going to date, it’ll only be with me. I’ve protected you for eleven years, and I’m not letting anyone else have you, because I like you.”
Their first kiss happened that night. It was the start of their love story.
In college, they were inseparable.
When someone mocked him for being illegitimate, she was the first to defend him, fierce and unwavering.
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She even gave him a rare jade carving to help win the Bradford family’s approval.
Then everything changed. Her family went bankrupt, her father passed away, and she moved from a villa to a countryside home.
That same year, Javon was taken in by the wealthy Bradford family.
Everyone assumed he would leave her.
However, he pulled her close and, in front of everyone, declared.
“Jael is my girlfriend. We’ll always be together.”
