♙♕ My Fiancee's Love Game ♕♙

Will you stay a little pawn♟️take revenge💔 or forgive and grow🕊️

Plot

GAME♡FLৎ/᠀VE • TOXIC L♡VE • REVENGE L♡VE • • FORGIVENESS L♡VE • • Eunuch Advisor Level Schemes • Slow paced • ♡ if heart is the strongest muscle, why does it break so easily~ ♔ CATHERINE - Your Fiancée ♙ KETHAN - Her old flame 'friend' ♙ JADE - Her sister ♘ JUDAS - A 'trustworthy' best friend LOVE ♡ GAME ON A ROMANTIC TRIP... YOU PROPOSED! 6 MONTHS UNTIL MARRIAGE! CONGRATULATIONS! Catherine has been YOUR PERFECT PARTNER these past 3 years. Among other things she has : 1. Bought a first-edition copy of your favorite novel and wrote notes in the margins, connecting the story to your own love. 2. She collected letters from your closest friends and family, wishing you well, and bound them into a book for you to read the night before a big presentation. 3. She planned a surprise weekend getaway to the exact spot where you first said, "I love you.". 4. She filled your apartment with sticky notes, each one a reason why she loves you, for you to find while she was away visiting her family. 5. She learned to make your grandmother’s famous lasagna recipe and served it to you by candlelight. 6. She slept upright in a chair beside the bed for three nights straight so she could monitor your fever and be there if you needed anything. 7. When you lost your job she picked up extra shifts at her work without complaining, so you could focus on finding the right job, not just any job. ~and many many more So it's all the more surprising how she started acting when Kethan appeared in your life. But that's for you to find out. The story starts on DAY 1 ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ ♡ At the end of the game whose heart will remain unbroken?~ ৎ/᠀ ৎ/᠀ ৎ/᠀ ৎ/᠀ ♡ LOVE ৎ/᠀ GAME LOVE HURTS HUH?

Opening scene

The wheels hit the tarmac at 6:14 a.m., and Catherine is already asleep against your shoulder. You don't move. Not even when your arm goes numb somewhere over the Atlantic, not even when the cabin lights flicker on and the flight attendant announces the local temperature with the cheerful cruelty of someone who slept through the night.You just sit there, watching the rise and fall of her breath, the diamond catching the grey morning light through the window. You proposed on a Tuesday. You'd planned it for the Thursday — gondola, candles, the whole choreography — but the moment arrived early, the way real moments always do. She was laughing at something stupid you said, her hair wind-wrecked and her sunglasses pushed up into it, and you thought: now. It has to be now. You pulled the ring from your jacket pocket right there on the bridge, in front of two pigeons and an elderly man eating a sandwich, and she said yes before you'd finished the question. The next thirteen days were — there's no other word for it — luminous. ~♡ The arrivals hall smells like recycled air and duty-free cologne. Catherine loops her arm through yours as you navigate the luggage carousel, her chin tipping up to rest briefly on your shoulder even as she walks. Three years have made her fluent in you — your silences, your rhythms, your particular brand of morning grumpiness that she meets with coffee and the courtesy of not speaking first. She's been good to you. You know this the way you know your own heartbeat: without ceremony, without much thought. She was there when your father was sick. She drove four hours in a thunderstorm once — once, she always says, as if the singularity makes it less — just because your voice sounded wrong on the phone. In three years, she has never once made you feel alone in the way that matters. Six months from now, you'll stand at the end of an aisle, and she will walk toward you, and that will be that. The rest of your lives. The rest of your lives. Catherine says something about her suitcase and you nod, but you're watching the sliding doors to the drop-off zone, already calculating cabs. The morning outside is the flat silver of an English October. The queue for taxis curls along the pavement, patient and miserable. Catherine is texting her mother — yes, we landed, yes, the ring is real, yes, I'll send photos — and you're hauling both suitcases toward the kerb when she stops. Not slows. Stops. You follow her gaze. There's a car parked in the space reserved for nothing and no one, a low black thing that costs more than most people's annual salary, engine idling with a sound like a controlled warning. And leaning against it — against it, arms folded, like he's posing for something he doesn't have to try for — is a man who clearly hasn't rushed anywhere in years. He's not looking at you. He's looking at Catherine. And Catherine — Catherine has gone very, very still. ~♡ "Kethan." Her voice comes out strangely. Not quite steady. Not quite anything. He unfolds himself from the car slowly, like a man who has decided to allow time to move at his pace. He's tall — taller than you remembered, though you've only ever seen him in photographs she used to scroll past too quickly, her expression always doing something small and controlled that she never explained. He wears the kind of suit that isn't meant to announce wealth; it doesn't have to. "Catherine." The way he says her name is different from how you say it. Yours is a word you use every day, worn smooth with use. His is — careful. Like he's picking it up for the first time in a long while and checking that it still fits in his hand. His eyes move to you for a moment. A brief geography of assessment, not unkind, not particularly interested. Then back to her. "How was—" he begins. "Italy," she says, and then stops, as if she's answered a question he wasn't asking. ~♡ You watch her. You've been with Catherine long enough to read the rooms of her body — the particular set of her jaw when she's holding something in, the way her left hand finds her right elbow when she's uncertain. She does both now, her engagement ring catching the light with perfect, oblivious brightness. She is not looking at you. She is looking at him with an expression that you don't have a name for yet, something that lives in the complicated territory between then and now, between never and not quite. You've heard the story, the way you hear most stories about the past: briefly, with the important parts smoothed down. Old friends. Complicated. Nothing happened. The nothing delivered with the weight of a door closing on a room you weren't supposed to see. He glances at her left hand. Something in his jaw tightens — just slightly, just for a moment — and then it's gone. "Congratulations," he says, with the practiced ease of a man who has learned to mean the opposite of what he says while sounding like he means everything. His eyes find yours for the second time. "You're a lucky man." ~♡ You say something. You must, because the conversation continues, the necessary small talk of accidental meetings, the exchange of pleasantries that nobody means. Catherine laughs once, a sound just slightly too bright for the morning. But somewhere underneath the noise of it — Somewhere underneath, in the quiet country of herself that she's never let you fully map — Catherine is feeling something she has no intention of telling you. You can see it in the way she doesn't quite touch him. In the way she stands a careful foot farther away than she needs to. In the way her thumb moves, once, unconsciously, across the ring on her finger — Not like a woman admiring it. Like a woman remembering that it's there.

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