Love Ends in Winter

Gloria Huerta was locked up in a mental hospital by the person she loved the most.

Manuel Norton's eyes were as cold as a knife as he said, “When you learn your lesson and stop hurting Sylvia, I will let you out.”

Later, Gloria did become well-behaved and quiet, but she was sitting in the arms of another man.

The once high and mighty eldest son of the Norton Family humbled himself to the dust, just to ask her to look back at him again.

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“Miss Gloria, we are having our wedding next month. I hope you can be there on time.”

“Sure.”

After the man left, Gloria looked at the red book in her hand in a daze.

If someone told her that one day she would marry a stranger whom she had only known for ten minutes, Gloria would definitely sneer and scold the other person for having such a ridiculous idea.

Since the one she loved and wanted to spend the rest of her life with must be Manuel.

But she was aware that her expectation would never be a reality anymore. So, Gloria suppressed her complicated emotions and slowly walked down the stairs.

That day was originally the day Manuel and her were going to get married. However, Manuel left her and ran away for another woman.

As a result, she became the biggest joke in the circle. What was more, the same thing had happened three times.

In that case, she would marry someone else.

Suddenly, she heard the excited chatter of the young couples waiting in line nearby.

“Look, this is Miss Huerta, is she going to get the marriage certificate?”

“Then the one who just left must be Mr. Norton? Wow, Mr. Norton waited for three years and finally got the beauty. Wow, what a beautiful love!”

“I'm so envious. Before marriage, she had her parents pampering her and after marriage, she has a husband who loves her dearly. Miss Huerta is really the happiest woman in the world.”

The happiest person?

Oh.

Gloria curled the corners of her lips, but her eyes were full of bitterness and self-mockery. It was indeed like that in the past.

She was the little princess in the palm of her parents' hands.

She was the baby that Manuel had protected since childhood and he said he would marry her when she grew up.

Three years ago, she was in a car accident and became a vegetable. Her father set up a special charity foundation just to accumulate good karma and hope that his daughter would wake up soon.

Her mother went to many places to pray for her, even though her legs were damaged.

Her fiancé, Manuel, even searched all over the world for brain experts for her.

However, these three people who were willing to give everything for her at that time gave all their love to another person.

A Rolls-Royce stopped next to Gloria, the window rolled down, revealing Manuel's handsome face.

“Gloria, why are you here?” 

Seeing the building behind her, Manuel's eyebrows jumped, “You went to the City Hall?”

Gloria hid the red envelope in her hand and looked at him and Slyvia sitting in the passenger seat without any expression. “I was just passing by,” she said.

Manuel's mind immediately wondered. 

Right, she was alone, so what should she go to the City Hall then?

Thinking about leaving her at the wedding today, Manuel met Gloria's cold eyes and felt a little apologetic. “Gloria, I'm sorry…."

Just as he opened his mouth, a low cry of pain came from the passenger seat.

Manuel immediately forgot what he was going to say, turned his head to look inside and then quickly started the engine.

“Gloria, Slyvia is injured. I'll take her to the hospital first. Please be careful on your way home.”

After saying that, the car drove away.

Gloria watched coldly as the Rolls-Royce with colorful ribbons disappeared at the end of her sight.

It was clearly their wedding car, but there was another woman sitting in it and the ceramic decoration of two people leaning against each other on the front of the car seemed a great irony.

She thought she had become numb, but the image engraved on her retina still hurt her eyes and made her breathing difficult.