The Christmas Prank That Ended Us Chapter 08
After living in Santorini for three stable months, I had gradually started adapting to my new life here.
After everything that happened, my parents never dared to contact me again.
The mess from that family had been completely cut off from my life.
Except for Garrett.
After the engagement party, he never stopped sending me messages.
At first, his attitude was still forceful and cold.
“When are you planning to stay in Santorini until?”
“Your parents’ situation has nothing to do with the two of us. Don’t you think you owe me an explanation?”
Later, when he realized I had no intention of replying, he began to panic.
“Jasmine, your company told me that you signed a ten-year contract and that you’re even planning to settle in Santorini in the future.”
“You really don’t plan to come back?”
“You’ve ignored me for so long. Are you really planning to cut me off completely?”
“Jasmine, I know I was wrong, okay?”
“I was wrong before. I shouldn’t have joined them in saying that you couldn’t take a joke.”
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“I shouldn’t have watched them prank you and said nothing.”
“I thought they were just normal jokes.”
“I’m sorry. I apologize for everything.”
“Can you please just reply to me once?”
I still didn’t respond. Instead, I blocked Garrett’s number.
Garrett probably would never know that, in my heart, the ending had already been decided long ago.
The moment our relationship truly ended wasn’t the day I exposed the recording at the engagement party.
It wasn’t the day I left the pack either.
It was that Christmas night.
The moment Garrett hung up on me for the first time.
The moment he chose to join them in pranking me.
The moment he ignored my safety and treated my pain like it was nothing.
From the second he chose Serena’s side, our relationship had already ended. So all of Garrett’s regrets and explanations now meant nothing to me.
My life in Santorini was peaceful.
There was no family that treated my pain as entertainment.
There was no boyfriend who couldn’t tell right from wrong.
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I no longer had to live in fear, wondering when I would become the next target of their so-called jokes.
I thought that with the distance between countries and the time difference between us, Garrett would finally stop bothering me.
Until one evening, after finishing work, I saw him standing downstairs.