My Boyfriend Broke My Legs Just to Help Other Girl Win the CrownChapter 1
The night before the dance competition, my boyfriend locked me in his car under the blazing summer sun—just to ensure Melinda Qualls could win the championship.
“Xandra, you’ll have plenty of chances in the future,” he said, his voice calm and unbothered. “What’s wrong with letting her have the title this time?”
Dehydrated and on the brink of collapse, I barely managed to drag myself to the venue. When I arrived, half-dead from heatstroke, the sight that greeted me was a dagger to my heart: my boyfriend dancing passionately with Melinda.
When I tried to go on stage, he stopped me—not with words, but by breaking my leg.
“Xandra,” he pleaded afterward, as if his actions could somehow be justified, “forgive me this time. I’ll make it up to you later. Melinda saved my mom’s life—I have to repay her.”
On what should have been the happiest day of my life, our wedding day, I was instead alone in a hospital room, undergoing an abortion. The moment he lifted his bride into his arms, he didn’t find me waiting. Instead, there was a small bottle containing the remains of our unborn child. Beneath it lay a note: