A Life Debt Repaid

The guests were encouraging, loudly asking, “Why?!”

“Because of a woman,” Sam’s recording replied.

“Who is it?”

“Quinn Summer,” the Sam on the screen said slowly and clearly, leaving the Sam who was in the hall stunned.

What the hell?! That was the proposal video he prepared before!

Why did it show up here? Did Zoe make a mistake?!

He knew it-leave anything to Zoe, and she would mess it up!

He started striding toward the stage, intent on stopping the recording, when John and Bob intercepted him with a look of utter guilt while the recording continued. “Quinn is my wife, and we’ve been married for years, but I’ve never really loved her-not because I don’t, but because I’m afraid to. I feel too insignificant in comparison to the one she loves, so I’d always hurt her…

so much now, Quinn. How could I have abandoned you for so long because of my own jealousy? I’d rather hold you in my sleep

was already a miserable picture, and his words only

this, a confession? One could laugh as much as they would

I first met you. I tried to catch your eye with

a new leaf. I probably won’t be a successful man,

a tool, or hurt you out of jealousy. From now on, what you say goes in our

of the more sentimental guests

choking with tears. “So… Will you marry me again? This will be the real start of our marriage-we’ll sleep together every day, performing our

not

as they are mine, I’ll love them with my

good husband and a

“I love you, Quinn!”

“Will you marry me?!”

ended there-there was a shower of petals planned at that stage, and Sam would go on