Chapter 9
With no money left, Sabrina quickly grew tired of Gavin.
To keep her by his side, Gavin took on any job he could find, working himself to the bone. But he had no idea that Sabrina was already married-and that their so-called child, Julia, had always. been nothing more than a burden she threw onto him.
One day, she violently shook off his hand and shoved him away.
“Let go of me! I could never marry you-because I’m already married!”
She flashed a wedding ring and pulled out a marriage certificate. Gavin’s eyes widened ir disbelief.
“See this? I’ve been lying to you from the start. I never loved you,” Sabrina said coldly. “You wer just after money, and now that it’s gone, who could possibly love you?”
Her voice was flat, stripped of all affection-only disgust and annoyance remained.
Sabrina had contacted me because the scandal was spiraling out of control. Not only could it destroy her husband’s reputation abroad, but it also threatened her own career in the entertainment industry. What had started as a bit of fun had become a nightmare. Now she loathed Gavin.
Gavin stood frozen in place as tears spilled from his eyes.
“You’re lying,” he cried. “You promised you’d marry me! I gave up everything for you-l eve divorced for you!”
His voice cracked with desperation. “I know I was wrong. Just… please forgive me.”
He dropped to his knees, sobbing uncontrollably. “Please don’t leave me… I was wrong. I wa: really wrong…”
But Sabrina, who had remained composed until then, snapped.
‘You’re disgusting,” she spat, kicking him to the ground. “Stop following me! Just disappear!”
‘This is all your fault! I just wanted some fun-now look what you’ve done. You’ve ruined me!”
With that, she turned and walked away without a shred of regret.
Gavin lay there, completely shattered. In that moment, he finally understood: Sabrina had neve loved him.
She only thought she did. To her, he had been nothing more than a toy-something to play with when it was exciting, then discard the moment it wasn’t.
From the moment he returned to Los Angeles, Sabrina had been using him.
He cried until there were no more tears left. Now, he had truly lost everything.
Sabrina’s romantic entanglements were far more complicated than Gavin had ever imagined.
But in his naivety, he had believed he’d found true love-only to be discarded like trash.
When he was finally discharged from the hospital, he tried to call me to pick him up.
But I had long since changed my number.
He couldn’t reach me at all.
Still, Gavin didn’t give up. He tried to turn his life around, looking for honest work. But the media frenzy from his public scandal had left a lasting stain. People pointed, whispered, and gawked
wherever he went.
Even his former assistant-the one he once looked down on-was now unemployed.
Gavin’s past mistakes had caught up with him, and no one wanted to be associated with him
anymore.
By the time he realized just how far he had fallen, it was already too late.
He had lost everything.
He wept bitterly, unable to accept what his life had become. Unemployed, struggling to raise two children alone, his body worn down and his debts piling up, Gavin’s mental health crumbled.
Meanwhile, my life had taken a different path.
My company’s reputation soared. We secured major investments and new projects flourished. When Gavin heard I was doing well, he dragged his crippled body to see me.
He stood at my doorstep, pale, hunched, and pitiful-barely recognizable from the man he once
vas.
