Her Lies, My Vows

Summary

After two years studying abroad, I cut my academic journey short, desperate to return home and fulfill my promise to marry her. But as I decorated our marital home, I stumbled upon thousands of meticulously preserved flight tickets belonging to the girlfriend I’d loved for a decade. At least once a month, she’d flown back and forth from France—yet never to see me. Not even when I was just a hundred kilometers from her destination. I arrived early at the venue where I planned to propose, only to watch from the adjacent hall as she accepted a proposal from another man, her true beloved: “Lana, will you marry me? Just say yes, and I’ll turn this very wedding into ours!” The sight of her, teary-eyed and radiant as she slipped on his ring, stopped me cold. I wasn’t the man she truly wanted to marry, so I supposed they could have this wedding after all. Yet, after I fled our own ceremony, she crossed oceans, searching for me across the globe.