He Married Her Instead

When he promised me a bright future, his eyes held only me.

Back then we had nothing, cramming ourselves into a rented room to eat stale bread.

He held me and said, "When the company goes public, I'll marry you."

I stayed with him through the hardest days, from a basement startup to a ten-billion-dollar fortune.

I naively waited for that day.

But when the company finally went public, he held the hand of a woman in white and said to me, "Sophia, you need to be understanding."

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The day news of his marriage to Charlotte spread, I was doing my makeup.