519 Invitations Had Her Name, I Cancelled The Wedding Chapter 07

Nathan and Madison waited outside the conservation institute for three days.

For the first two days, he kept asking the staff to pass on messages.

Later, I had security tell him that if he kept harassing me, I would call the police.

On the third afternoon, when I came out of training, I still saw them standing at the bottom of the steps.

Nathan had lost weight. His shirt was badly wrinkled.

Madison walked up first.

“Evelyn, I really know I was wrong.”

“The invitations were my fault: I had no sense of boundaries at the shop that day either.”

She reached for my hand, but I stepped aside.

Madison laughed awkwardly and kept going.

“But Nathan hasn’t had it easy these past few days either.”

“That night on the island, he wasn’t in the mood to have fun at all.”

“I booked an ocean-view room with two beds, and he sat on the balcony smoking the whole time he got

there.”

“I wore a new dress and asked him to take pictures, but he just stared at your social media.”

She meant to prove Nathan cared.

But every sentence only reminded me.

They had stayed in the room that was supposed to be mine for the engagement trip.

Madison had stood in front of him in a new dress.

And he had gone to the island with her while my hand was still injured and my father’s letters were ruined.

I cut her off.

“Where you stayed and what you wore is none of my business.”

Madison’s smile froze.

Nathan stepped forward.

“Evelyn, come home with me.”

“I won’t sign the divorce settlement.”

I looked up at him.

“If you don’t sign, I’ll sue.”

“If it doesn’t work once, I’ll try twice. Eventually it will be over.”

Nathan’s face turned ugly instantly.

“What do you want?”

“You just want me to reprint the invitations and keep Madison out of the wedding, don’t you?”

He turned to Madison.

“From today on, you have nothing to do with the wedding.”

“And don’t come to my house anymore.”

Madison froze.

“What do you mean?”

Nathan’s voice was cold.

“Stop following me.”

Madison’s eyes reddened.

“Nathan Caldwell, we’ve been best friends for twenty years.”

“You’re throwing me out for her?”

“Go back.”

He didn’t look at her again.

Madison stared at him, then suddenly laughed.

“Fine.”

“I’ll go.”

She dragged her suitcase and slammed her shoulder into his as she left.

Nathan didn’t chase her.

He looked back at me, his voice finally softening.

“I’ll reprint all the invitations.”

“Your father’s audio will be played at the wedding again.”

“I’m repairing the keepsake. I’m having the old letters restored too.”

“Evelyn, let’s start over.”

I asked him, “Are you doing this because you think I was wronged or because I actually left?”

Nathan’s lips moved.

He didn’t answer.

I walked around him toward the dormitory.

He instinctively grabbed my wrist.

A colleague from the project immediately stepped in front of me.

“Mr. Caldwell, Ms. Harper has made herself clear.”

“Please don’t interfere with her work.”

Nathan looked at me standing behind someone else, his face dark and terrifying.

“This is a private matter.”

I pulled my hand free.

“There’s nothing between us anymore.”

That night, he waited downstairs until dawn.

When I came back, his voice was hoarse.

“Evelyn, is there really no chance at all?”

I stopped.

“Nathan, stop treating my leaving like a tantrum.”

“I don’t miss you.”

“I don’t want you anymore.”

He stood under the streetlight and didn’t speak for a long time.

The next day, he returned to Calder Bay alone…

Before he left, I sent my attorney a message.