All Chapters of My Cheating Amnesic Idol Mate: Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

Ashley POVIt really felt like she had punched a hole in my chest. I dropped the glass of water I was holding, which was thankfully only an inch above the surface of the kitchen overhang, leaving only a slight splash of water coming out, and felt my jaw slacken.My eyes stared at her in utter disbelief. "You can't be serious," I managed to say. "This has to be a joke, right?"She looked away. So did my dad when I tried to catch his attention."Why?" I asked, my voice only sounding like a whisper. "How?""It's a long story," Dad finally said quietly, slumping down onto a barstool that was two stools away from me. "And sits so close to my heart and my past.""I think I have the right to know that story down to the smalle

Ashley POV"You're engaged?"As if I had punched the air out of him, his eyes shot open in shock. I had never seen his face turn so pale so quickly. I just blinked my eyes and suddenly, his face was as white as the wall behind him."And of all the men in this world," he continued, his voice trembling, "you're engaged to my brother?"Spontaneously, I took a step forward, an excuse that made sense and sounded honest, or maybe even the truth itself eager to escape my lips. "Jay..."I had just started when his face hardened into stone and he broke away from my gaze, which caused my words to get stuck in my throat. "I-I didn't know," he mumbled. "Uncle, Auntie, Ash..." His voice broke and he quickly cleared his throat. "...if you would just excuse me..."Without further explanation, Jayden hurried down the hallway in an instant. I heard the bathroom door lock behind him... just as I listened to the shards of my broken heart trying to merge into a single entity inside my rib cage. Just as t

Ashley POV"What is it you're trying to say?" I asked slowly, briefly wondering if this was all a dream. If Jayden crouching before me was just a shadow of my imagination, and that everything about my engagement, be it with him or with his brother, everything about his accident and amnesia was just an imagination. Maybe I would wake up soon and realize that I was twelve again and the only problems in my world were whether my grandpa or grandma who would cook for me that evening, whether my parents would be okay on their flight to Rome, and whether Eva would stop trying to convince me that Harry Styles would win her heart in five years, and I just needed to watch and learn from her about how to charm pop idol stars. The latter was ironic considering my current dream, but it had come true nonetheless.The moment I felt the warmth of his fingers, met the warmth of caramel brown eyes on a face that used to have a nose that was too big and smelled the fresh scent of soap, white musk, and

Ashley POVFear crept into his voice at the end of his sentence. I tried to give him a reassuring smile, but Jayden didn't look up, his face slowly stiffening into a rigid line. Knowing that I simply couldn't follow my instinct to do more to comfort him more closely, with touch or closeness, I braced myself in my seat. I was just about to make a joke when my cell phone vibrated in the pocket of my pajama pants.It was Eva.“What's up?” I asked as I answered the call, immediately drawing the attention of Jayden who was sitting near me.“Ash... You won't even believe what I'm about to tell you...” Eva sobbed loudly into her phone, her voice barely audible between her strangled cries.“Hey,” I said, trying to remain calm even though my heart was starting to get wary. “Snap out of it. Where are you? Are you hurt?”Jayden glanced at me in confusion. “Parents?” he asked hesitantly.I shook my head, my voice turned to a whisper. “Eva,” I replied, ”She's crying.”I winced as a horrible wail c

Ashley POV“Don't even try,” he hissed. "You and your family have more than enough money to buy a small town. Why can't you use those resources to piss me off?”“Because I'm a good person?” I was tempted to turn on the wall lamp behind me, but as much as I wanted to see Jayden acting irrationally, I didn't want to see his expression which was definitely harsh and cold. He was too good at it.After a horribly long pause, he broke the silence with a small laugh. “Never been an optimist, have you?”It took a while before I came to my senses as to what was really going on. I groaned in annoyance. “Have you been joking all this time?”“Yes,” he said cheerfully.“You idiot!”He laughed out loud. It had been a long time since I'd heard him laugh like that, and the happy sound warmed my heart, sinking into my bones. “Well, can you really blame me? I want to see how much dedication you have. Besides, I also wanted to see if I could still lie to you if I needed to.”“Sadistic bastard,” I grumbl