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old.”
“It’s not a trick.”
“Fine. It’s not, OK?” Bryce cut in perfunctorily. “You’re married? How could you lie like that? I’ll see what you do in two weeks.”
With a frown, Alden was about to speak when his phone rang urgently.
He answered, and they heard Arianna’s feeble crying voice.
“Alden, Drake, and Bryce, why did you suddenly disappear? I feel awful…”
The triplets‘ expressions changed. Panic was plain on their faces.
Alden’s tone softened at once. “Arianna, I came out to buy your favorite food. I’ll go back immediately.”
‘Arianna, don’t be afraid. I’m on my way.”
“Arianna, wait for me.”
The call ended, and the triplets got into their own cars respectively, started the engines, and drove home.
None of them offered to take Grace home.
She was left there alone.
Her hair danced in the cold wind, and her vision gradually became blurry.
Watching the three cars zoom off, Grace smiled wryly. Somehow, she had a sense of loss.
She didn’t understand how things between her and the triplets became
like this.
When Grace was seven, her parents died in an accident. Afterward, she was raise by the Hawthorne family. The two families had been friends for generations. Grace’s engagement was arranged when she was little.
That day, she came to the Hawthorne’s house for the first time. In a princess dress, she looked soft and sweet. The Hawthorne brothers fell for her at first sight.
They fought for her nonstop and wanted her to be their wife the first time they saw her.
Their parents had thought it was just a childhood crush. However, the crush didn’t pass. The boys still competed for her after they became adults.
Grace was precious to them. She was the apple of their eye. If a boy got close to her or wrote her a love letter, they’d fight him to death.
When they grew up, Alden became the heir to the family. Drake became the best actor in the world. And Bryce became a superstar in electronic sports. They had different personalities but were all attracted to Grace. None of them would withdraw from the competition.
Baffled, their parents decided to let Grace marry one of them on her 22nd birthday.
That was today.
They were supposed to get their marriage certificates at the City Hall today. Grace came, but the triplets, who had said she was their one and only, didn’t show up.
They broke their pact because of Arianna.
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Arianna was the daughter of the Hawthorne family’s new domestic worker. As soon as she moved in, she racked her brains to design encounters and impress the triplets.
She made cookies for them, reminded them not to skip meals, and delivered medication for gastritis to them on a rainy day.
To her dismay, these tricks were cliches to the boys. They remained nonchalant, rejected Arianna as they did other girls, and coldly called her a manipulative bitch. They hated her and didn’t wanna see her.
Then, a car accident happened. Arianna stood before them without hesitation. They were unscathed. But hit by the car, Arianna was sent flying and almost died.
Henceforth, the brothers‘ attitude toward Arianna changed radically.
They became biased in Arianna’s favor and had even hurt Grace repeatedly for her.
When Arianna sprained her ankle, they went to her in a hurry and left Grace alone in the dangerous mountain.
There was one time when Grace had a fever of 40 degrees. Then, Arianna played the woman and wanted to go to the amusement park. To grant her wish, the triplets abandoned the feverish Grace.
When Arianna and Grace both fell into the water, they all chose to save Arianna first.
Tons of such things had happened.
Today, they were supposed to register their marriage with Grace, but they all broke their promises.
They had said Grace was the only woman they wanted to marry. They
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couldn’t live without her. But none of them came today.
Everyone in their circle knew how much the triplets had loved Grace these years.
But now, they had forsaken her. If word went out, the Parrish family would be humiliated.
To keep her dignity, Grace married a random guy.
Now that the engagement was off, she had nothing to do with the triplets from today on.
