Chapter 25

Suddenly, memories of Meredith and Joshua's past flashed through her mind. When she was six, Joshua had held her hand and told her parents that he would take her if they didn't want her. When she was 16, Joshua mustered all his courage and confessed to her, telling her that he would only love her for the rest of his life. When she was 22, Joshua spent hundreds of millions of dollars to ask for her hand in marriage. He'd begged her never to leave him because he would then go crazy. When she was 23, before the date of their wedding, Joshua cheated on her with Angel and started lying to her numerous times. He also started staying out late without coming back home. When she was 24, she "killed" herself three days before their wedding date. From that day onward, she never saw Joshua's face again. When she was 25, they finally met again, but they were now forever separated from each other. The last bit of hatred Meredith had for Joshua dissipated at that moment. She didn't hate him a