The Day I Let Him Drown

I dive into the ocean to save Preston Gale. After doing CPR on him in front of everyone, the wedding that is meant for my cousin, Roxanne Shaw, somehow falls to me instead. On our wedding night, Preston prefers to drown himself in alcohol rather than spend the night with me. I'm foolish enough to think that if I keep at it, he'll come around eventually. Three years later, Roxanne returns, holding a child who looks so much like Preston that it stops my heart for a second. Only then do I finally understand that while I spent that wedding night alone, he was with her. "Rox, I know these years have been hard on you. I'll make it right. I'll make sure Lexi gives your place as Mrs. Gale back to you," Preston says. I tell him I'm pregnant, too, hoping it might change something. However, it doesn't. He coldly tells me to abort it, before forcing me onto the operating table, ending two lives at once. When I open my eyes again, I'm back on the day Preston fell into the sea. Soaked through, he's lying there, and I scream Roxanne's name into the crowd, my voice cracking with desperation.