Back to the Day I Should’ve Walked Away Novel – Steve Hebert and I spent most of our lives together, raised children, and reached our golden wedding anniversary. Before Steve died of a serious illness, his son asked him if he had any last wishes. “After I die, bury me with Sariah. This is the only wish I have in my life.” The whole scene looked at me sympathetically.
I nodded in agreement, “Let’s just do as he said.” People used to laugh at me. Over the years, I served my in-laws, raised my children, and before I died, I couldn’t even hold onto my husband’s heart. I became a joke. But they didn’t know, if there were another life, I would never marry Steve. When we opened our eyes again, we were back on the day of the wedding. Steve did run away from the wedding, leaving me to face the criticism of others. I didn’t think it was ugly, instead I breathed a sigh of relief.
His gaze slowly turned towards the man in the suit in the corner. “Andrew, I am missing a groom, would you be willing to stand in for me?” As soon as I finished speaking, the whole room fell silent. Even the man who was drinking heavily with his head tilted back stopped in disbelief and suddenly looked up. “What did you just say…?” Andrew Finley’s eyes were slightly red at the corners. The light in his eyes flickered a bit when he looked at me. I smiled, “I walked confidently towards him in front of all the guests.” “I said I wanted to marry you, do you want to marry me?” Andrew stared at me blankly.
His lips were trembling slightly with excitement. Before he could even speak. Steve’s mother, Kendra Hebert, immediately became anxious and approached to grab my hand to persuade me. “Caroline, good girl, I know that scumbag made you suffer today, but I have already sent someone to bring him back.” “He just didn’t know any better, acting recklessly.” “Don’t worry, as long as I’m here, his bride can only be you.
Don’t act impulsively, don’t marry someone else out of anger.” I smiled, pulled out my hand. “Kendra, forced melons are not sweet, and I am not determined to marry Steve. You should just let them be.” In my previous life, I was not unaware that “Steve’s sweetheart has always been my sister Sariah Mckee.” Just because Sariah had several boyfriends, had three terminations, and ruined her body. The doctor’s examination revealed that she would never be able to conceive again in her lifetime.
Kendra’s face turned cold in an instant. She firmly refused to agree to be with him. But the marriage between the two families had been arranged long ago. In addition, Steve and I grew up together since childhood, and I had a secret crush on Steve since I was young. This marriage matter naturally fell on my head. In my previous life, everyone said that we walked all the way to our golden wedding anniversary, which was a rare loving couple.
But whether we are happy or not, the taste of it, only we ourselves know. After sixty years of marriage, we spent fifty-five years living apart. Steve hated me. Even on the day when I was having a difficult delivery in the hospital with a child in my womb, he didn’t come to see me from beginning to end. Every time a child had a birthday, he would spend the whole day at the cemetery. He often got himself drunk and in his sleep he would shout the name of “Sariah”. At first, I thought that feelings could be cultivated slowly, and past hurts could be forgotten.
Year after year, it was not until Steve and I became a resentful couple that I realized it was not that easy. Now I finally have the chance to start over, I will choose to let him go, and also let myself go. Kendra saw me holding hands with Andrew, and her face immediately turned pale with anxiety. “Caroline, you have long been the daughter-in-law I have set my heart on. How could you marry someone else?” “I never liked Sariah, no matter what reason she had for calling Steve away today, I won’t allow him to marry this kind of woman.” In my previous life, it was on our wedding day. Sariah found out about our marriage and couldn’t bear it, so she “jumped into the sea to commit suicide.” She left only a farewell letter and a video.
“Steve, I have to call you brother-in-law, but I love you, really can’t say it out.” “I really envy my sister. She can get you so effortlessly, but it seems like I always fall just a little short in luck.” “If there really is a next life, Steve, marry me instead.” Just because Kendra didn’t like her. Thought she was deliberately showing off, blocking Steve and ignoring him, and continuing with the wedding banquet.
I didn’t expect that Sariah really “jumped into the sea to commit suicide.” After the wedding, I saw her body being salvaged, already cold and lifeless. This time. Steve couldn’t bear to see her die with his own eyes. When he received the short video sent by Sariah, his eyes were red, and he rushed out without hesitat