He Married My Best Friend, Then Lost Me Forever Chapter 06

He Married My Best Friend, Then Lost Me Forever Chapter 06

He instinctively tried to pull free from Sophia. 

But Sophia clung tightly to his arm. 

Her eyes were full of devastation, and her lips trembled as she pleaded softly, “Zachary, after the wedding, I’ll explain everything to Lily with you. But right now, please, let’s finish the ceremony first. 

I’m begging you.” 

For the sake of my family’s reputation, I could choose not to make a scene with them. 

For the sake of her family’s reputation, Sophia also had to protect the wedding she had fought so 

hard to secure. 

She did not dare imagine what kind of joke she and her family would become if Zachary denied their relationship at that moment. 

She also did not dare imagine what her calculating father, who cared only about advantage, would do 

to her without Zachary. 

Zachary’s face was tense, but he did not continue. 

“Sorry for interrupting your wedding. Please 

continue.” 

With a faint smile, I dragged Caleb, who was still 

stunned, out of the reception hall. 

Only when we reached the entrance did Caleb 

finally come back to himself. 

He looked at me with scrutiny and confusion in his 

eyes. 

“He lied to you. Why didn’t you expose him?” 

I looked at him calmly. “Because I still care about 

my dignity.” 

“Do you think if I stood in front of everyone and 

called him the man who betrayed me, and called 

my best friend the person who stabbed me in the back, they’d be the only ones humiliated? Once things turned ugly, I could leave this place and 

never come back. But this was the town where my 

parents had built their whole lives. They had old 

service friends here. They had family here. They 

could not give up everything and start over just 

because of me.” 

“But you’re not the one who did anything wrong. If you don’t say anything, who will ever know what 

they put you through?” 

I stayed calm. 

Caleb looked like he was about to lose his mind 

from anger. 

I looked at him in confusion. 

As far as I could remember, we had only met a 

handful of times. 

We had barely spoken. 

I did not understand why he was angrier than I 

was. 

“Caleb, why are you…” 

I was just about to ask him when my mother suddenly appeared and yanked me behind her. 

She studied Caleb sharply. 

Then she said with cutting sarcasm, “Well, look at 

that. The very busy man who is usually impossible 

to pin down somehow has time to attend 

someone else’s wedding today.” 

Caleb froze for a moment. 

Then he quickly understood. 

“I’m sorry.” 

With complete sincerity, he dipped his head and 

said seriously, “This was my fault. I’ll never do it 

again.” 

My mother was caught off guard by how sincere 

he was. 

A moment ago, she had been thinking that if his 

attitude was poor, she would absolutely make us 

break up and forbid me from seeing him again. 

But the man in front of her was nothing like what she had imagined. 

“This isn’t that serious. You don’t need to 

apologize like that.” 

Looking at the seriousness on Caleb’s face, I only 

grew more confused. 

But with my mother here, I could not ask him. 

“Oh, I know you young people have your own 

ideas. I just wanted to know whether her boyfriend 

actually existed. I was afraid she had made your 

up.” 

The sternness on my mother’s face vanished in an 

instant, replaced by a kind smile. 

“If you were coming to the wedding, why didn’t your 

say so earlier? You could have sat at our table. 

Then I could have introduced you to the relatives.” 

“Mom!” The alarm bells in my head went off the second I heard that. “He’s really busy. He has to go 

back to base soon.” 

“It’s all right. I saw that your table isn’t full. It isn’t 

too late for me to sit with you now.” 

Caleb suddenly cut me off and smiled politely at 

my mother. 

My eyes widened in shock. Without thinking, I 

grabbed his sleeve. “What are you doing? I was 

wrong to drag you into this and make things up 

earlier. You don’t have to take it seriously.” 

“I…” 

Before he could finish, my mother eagerly took 

Caleb by the arm and led him back into the 

reception hall.