Just as I was about to reach him, I refused the hand Jake extended toward me.
Instead, I took the microphone and looked him straight in the eye. My voice was calm.
“Jake, let’s cancel the wedding. I don’t want to marry you anymore.”
As soon as the words left my mouth, the lively crowd around us fell completely silent.
Jake just scoffed and looked at me with disdain.
“Lily, we’ve been together for five years, and you’ve been chasing after me all this time just to finally get to this wedding.
“And now you’re walking away? Do you even believe yourself?”
Despite the pain tearing at me inside, when he asked that, I still nodded firmly.
After all, he had long forgotten that I was not the one begging for this marriage. It was him who had asked for it.
Five years ago, in the middle of a heavy snowfall, it was him who took my hand, knelt on one knee, and held up a ring.
He had asked if I would spend my life with him.
Back then, his eyes were filled with nothing but love for me.
That was why I forgave him again and again while giving him countless chances to hurt me.
However, at that moment, I suddenly realized something.
No one was truly indispensable in anyone’s life. No matter who left your life, you would still survive.
Under his smug gaze, I slipped the ring off my finger and held it up for everyone to see.
“Jake, I’m telling you now, we’re done.”
Then, I tossed the ring at him and walked away without looking back.
Just as I stepped off the stage, Jake’s best man, who was standing behind him, hurriedly tried to stop me.
“Wait, Ms. James! Jake was just joking.
“He really does love you. You’re not really going to break up over a joke, are you?”
Behind him, Jake’s face had turned livid with anger. His hand clenched tightly around the ring I had thrown at him.
It was the same ring he had spent a fortune to have custom-made.
Yet now, his voice was filled with coldness.
“Let her go! It’s not like I can’t have this wedding without her!”
Hearing that, the best man awkwardly withdrew his hand.
I let out a bitter laugh and walked out of the venue without looking back.
