After the Real Heiress Ruined My Fifteenth Engagement, My Fiancé Regretted Everything

For ten years, Mia Hartley has been Sebastian Blackwood's fiancée, and for fourteen engagement parties, Lily Hartley—the scholarship girl Sebastian funds—has crashed them. At the fifteenth, Lily scatters private photos and tells the guests to leave, while Sebastian's friends bet on how Mia will swallow it again. When Mia slides off her ring, Sebastian only smiles and tells them to pay Lily, then orders Mia to apologize.

Mia has given Sebastian ten years, since a high-school pep rally where he swore he would love her until he died. Even after a surgery left her unable to bear children and his family turned on her, he kept declaring it louder. Then Lily returned as the real Hartley daughter, and everything Mia earned—her Yale Law recommendation, her birthday gifts—became something Lily could ask for and get.

Now Mia refuses to perform. Her mother arrives and urges her to apologize and keep the engagement, so Mia packs the penthouse. As she drags out her last suitcase, Sebastian stumbles in drunk, calling her baby and saying he missed her.