A Cheat

Aubrielle sighed as she stretched. She is returning from her trip to Italy a day early, wanting to surprise her long-time fiancée, Mark. A goofy smile was on her face as she stepped down from the airplane, already imagining what Mark would look like. She was hoping that he wouldn’t mind that she didn’t inform him of her early arrival, after all, this was to be a surprise.

Truth be told, it was also a

surprise on her part when her secretary informed her that the business trip was

cut short because the clients had already agreed to the contract. Aubrielle was

euphoric. She beamed brightly at her secretary and immediately set on packing

her luggage. Not even a few hours later, she profusely thanked the client that

she had been assigned to meet.

“It really was a pleasure to

meet you, sir, and I’m very glad that we would be seeing more of each other in

the future.” Aubrielle bowed to the old man in front of her.

Jonathan, her client, laughed

boisterously. “It was no problem, Miss Holloway, it was a great pleasure to

meet you as well. You are a charming young woman, and Holloway Industries is

very lucky to have you on their company.”

Aubrielle flushed from the

compliment and smiled brightly at the old man. Back at the present, Aubrielle

took out her phone and frowned slightly when she saw that there were no

messages from Mark. She shook her head. Maybe he was just busy! The thoughts

consumed her mind. Throughout the trip to Italy, Mark hadn’t bothered to

message her either. Gulping, she reminded herself not to think the worst of her

fiancée.

Aubrielle truly loved the

man. She really, really did.

The woman smiled at her

chauffeur, who bowed slightly to her as he opened the door to her car.

Silently, she murmured to him, “Hello, Sebastian. It’s very nice to see that

you're doing well.”

Sebastian smiled at Aubrielle

as she got seated in the car. “Where to, Lady Aubrielle?”

“Well, I figured we could

drop off my bags before we go to the Lee Residence, would that be alright with

you?” Aubrielle furrowed her eyebrows. She was excited before, but now she was

slightly dreading going to her fiancée’s house. There was something that she

was fearing about the large mansion, but she didn’t exactly know what. Call it

intuition, if you like.

Much to Aubrielle's dismay,

the trip had not been that long, and she soon found herself on the doorstep of

her fiancée. Taking a deep breath, she opened the door and was surprised to see

that everything was dark. She remained silent and took out her phone for light

instead.

Aubrielle slowly walked

towards the kitchens to see if Mark was there, but to her disappointment, he

was not. She heard thumping noises upstairs and thought that maybe Mark was

playing with friends again. Smiling softly to herself, she walked towards the

stairs, climbing it when she suddenly paused. The was a piece of stray clothing

lying astray on the staircase. A woman’s clothing.

A woman’s blouse.

Aubrielle was not liking the

feeling that she was getting. She was doubting her fiancée more and more. And she

did not like it. Aubrielle closed her

eyes as she walked past the blouse. As she ascended the stairs, there was only

more and more clothing as she passed.

Some, she recognized, but

some, she didn’t. At this point, Aubrielle was already expecting the worst. Her

heart only broke further when she heard the noises coming out of her fiancée’s

room. She was already outside the door. It seemed as though she was only

listening in. The loud moans of both her fiancée and another woman echoed

through her ears, her hand on the doorknob of Mark’s room. Tears streamed down

her cheeks, and she was breathing out of her mouth.

Feeling a bit braver than she

usually does, Aubrielle pushed open the door and was met by the outrageous

sight of Mark pounding a red-haired woman. Her heart leaped to her throat only

to drop to her feet. The woman shrieked as she saw Aubrielle, and

Aubrielle's heart only broke

when she saw who the woman was.

Her very own best friend,

Kate.

Aubrielle shook her head as

she took off the diamond engagement ring. With a shaky breath, she said,

“Goodbye, Mark. I hope you’ll be happy. You deserve each other. You’re both

lying snakes.”

She ran down the stairs,

ignoring her ex-fiancée’s pleas of letting him explain. Sebastian looked

shocked as he saw Aubrielle quickly entering the car with tears streaming down

her face. He glared at

the mansion and immediately

drove away.

Meanwhile, Aubrielle was

thinking of when the hell she went wrong. As far as she was concerned, she was

a fairly decent fiancée. Her engagement with Mark was doing wondrously. So

what went wrong?

It only added further tears

when she saw who was with Mark.

Kate.

Her best friend. Her only

friend. Her heart hurt. She closed her eyes as everything faded into

nothing. 

Sebastian was alarmed.

Aubrielle passed out. He switched his route towards the hospital, and quickly

took Aubrielle out and carried her in his arms like she weighed nothing more

than a feather.

"Doctors!"

Sebastian called out, his face looking grim. "Please! This woman just

suddenly passed out!"

Doctors did go to him quickly,

and was horrified at the sight of the pale woman in his arms. They did a quick

scan of Aubrielle, and found that her heart wasn’t beating anymore. Nor was she

breathing. Within a span of a few hours, the doctors found out that Aubrielle died

from taktsubo cardiomyopathy.

In simpler terms, she had died of heartbreak.

The head doctors wondered what the poor woman had experienced for her to have this terrible sickness. One nurse broke the news to Sebastian, who looked terrified. Aubrielle’s parent were already there, and were informed of Aubrielle’s condition. They asked Sebastian what had happened, and the man explained that they had went to the Lee Residence, and that she had come out crying. That’s when Aubrielle’s parents knew one thing.

Mark was nothing more than that of a cheat.