He Set Me Up at the Wedding, I Took Him Down – I’d chased Kian Voss for ten years, and I’d finally had enough. I let him go and chose Jaxon Reed—the man who’d loved me all along. Jaxon lit up the entire city with fireworks for me, bought a private island, and got down on one knee to propose. But right before our wedding, he vanished. When I found him, I heard him sneer at someone. “I only went after Chloe Carter to piss off Kian.” “Now that I’ve got her, she’s boring.” “But I’m not willing to accept it, so running away from marriage makes her humiliated. Isn’t it fun?” So I left him first. I became the runaway bride, turning him into the laughingstock of the city. Later, I heard the proud young master of the Reed family had torn the entire capital apart, searching for his missing bride. One month before our wedding, Jaxon disappeared. I searched every corner of the city and found nothing.
On the seventh day of his vanishing, I got a tip he was in New York. I flew there overnight. I finally spotted him on a yacht. I was about to knock when I heard his cold, mocking laugh. “I only went after Chloe Carter to make Kian Voss miserable.” “Now that I’ve won her over, she’s just not interesting anymore.” I froze. He wasn’t drunk. He was stone-cold sober. And the cruel words kept coming. “Besides, after being with her… she’s pretty dull.” Lewd, amused chuckles echoed around him. “Only you could pull off the untouchable beauty, Mr. Reed.” Jaxon clearly loved the praise. “She chased Kian like her life depended on it, but she’s completely innocent. Shame, though…” “Shame of what?” He exhaled a puff of cigarette smoke. “Shame I was her first man, but not her first love.” “She loved Kian for ten years.
Who knows if she ever really cleared him out of her heart?” “If I wasn’t dead-set on getting back at Kian by winning Chloe, I never would’ve put on this whole ‘quiet, devoted lover’ act.” Someone teased, “You’ve been with her three years. Why the second thoughts now?” Jaxon’s face twisted with irritation, his voice sharp. “ Because I chased her for so long. I can’t stand the idea of losing.” Another voice asked, “I heard she’s been losing her mind looking for you. Is it okay to disappear this long?” Jaxon took another drag, smirking coldly. “Ditching her at the wedding to embarrass her… isn’t that fun?” I saw no guilt, no pity, no love on his face. Only triumph. Only satisfaction, like he’d waited for this moment his whole life. My nails dug into my palms. My heart felt like it was being stabbed with a thousand needles, the pain suffocating.
I’d thought Jaxon was my salvation, my ending. I’d made sure my feelings for him were real love, not just gratitude, before saying yes. The night we got together, he’d lit up the entire city with fireworks just for me. Three years later, he’d bought an island and named it after me, proposing under a sky full of sky lanterns. I’d thought it was love. I’d thought it was romance. I never guessed it was all a show to get revenge on Kian. All those years of tenderness and care… were they just an act?