The Price of Your Dying Wish

My girlfriend eloped.

Not with me, but with her first love.

I went completely insane with jealousy and called to confront her, only for her to scream at me through the phone:

"He's willing to die for me! Would you ever do that for me?"

All because he had once saved her life and told her: "My life was given to you a long time ago. So now, you belong to me, too!"

I might have never saved her life, but everything she possessed today was something I had handed to her.

Hearing her shrill demand—"I only married him to fulfill his dying wish!