Dumped With Cancer: I Became The Woman He Spends His Life Chasing

on his arm. Her fingers tightened around the late-stage stomach cancer diagnosis, while he mo

ly to be repaid with the news that Ju

er calling the hospital and agreeing to go ab

y there, but after Aria left, J

veryone, put all his work on hold, an

information about A

ed. "Are you he

urgently. "I'm

possible. She said she has no family

..

lls rang, Aria rec

n a date with an eighteen-year-old

t Aria, waiting for her to rush home an

logy hospital-stomach cancer, with a recommendation to tra

erupted a

n? Did her husb

ey've been together ten ye

side piece. No wonder she's always s

's ears. She ignored them comple

he lock when a woman's sweet, syr

heels and stockings were scatter

la Bennett was wrapped in Julian's white dre

years, lowered his head to kiss the top of Lil

it instantly. He pulled Lila tighter into h

ere in silence. She didn't explode like bef

! Aria, I didn't... Julian said

like blood. "Julian... you promised me. You said you

d. "Aria, I bought this place. If you don't want to live here, then

ight of ten years

, Aria gathered her courage and confessed to Jul

her, and she was tempted. But when Julian got drunk, held her,

Aria asked Julian, "What are we, exactly?" What

ion were repaid with a single sentence

a little longer, once he was done playing a

uld no longer l

ture gathering at the corners of her eyes. "Julian

ngry humiliation. "I have no shame? You were with me since you were fifteen, stu

hts shattered, the color draini

weetheart. Afterward, she became pregnant by accident, and as she lay on the col

red and threatened in an underground parking garage, while he was busy fueling r

iting for him to stumble back drunk, just to make him a bottle of wa

even earn the title of "girlfriend," re

up. "Aria, I know you hate me... but Julian and I ar

ed, so tired she couldn't

rop the pathetic act. If you don't want to keep

a meal now. Looking at this

augh and hooked her a

e, "if I said I'm sick, that I'll be going abroad for trea

you trying to pull now? Playing pitiful to force

ammed shut

ess, not knowing how long

the window, but the light of the

vibrated. It was a

lish little jump. Had he regretted it? Had h

one cold line. "Bring me a full set o

"If you don't come, c

lways li

atened her with "breaking up." Every time she softene

suddenly laughed, even as te

a was too tired. She didn't want to

t to a convenience s

items at the hotel front desk and

alm, frozen solid. "Hello, this is Aria. I agre

spital in seven days to register. You'll be