Back to the Proposal Day, I Grant Him His Regret

When Hugh Gilbert dropped to one knee and proposed to me, the whole restaurant broke into applause. He held up the ring, and in his eyes was the same tenderness I once trusted more than anything. "Zoe, marry me. I'll spend my whole life being good to you." In my last life, those words made my eyes well up, and I said yes. After the wedding he was diagnosed with cancer. I sold off the jewelry I'd owned before the marriage, and mortgaged the apartment my parents left me.