The CEO Used AI To Reply While He Loved Her Chapter 05
When I woke up, sunlight was slipping through the crack in the curtains.
My phone had been off for too long. The second I turned it back on, it vibrated so violently my palm
went numb.
More than a hundred missed calls.
Most were from the Mercer family and Callan, though a few unfamiliar numbers were mixed in too.
My messages were even worse.
Vanessa alone had sent over a dozen voice notes.
The first one still sounded relatively calm.
“Evelyn, sweetheart, where are you? The hotel said the wedding was canceled?”
The second already carried irritation.
“How could you make a decision this big without discussing it with the family first?”
By the last few, she was practically screaming.
“Do you have any idea how humiliated you made us look? All the relatives showed up! Was this some kind of joke to you?”
I sat quietly on the hotel bed and listened to the final message.
Then I tossed the phone aside and walked into the bathroom.
As hot water streamed down my face, I suddenly remembered-today was supposed to be my wedding day.
But strangely, I felt absolutely nothing.
No heartbreak.
No panic.
Just overwhelming relief.
Like I had finally escaped something that had been suffocating me for years.
When I came back out, my phone rang again.
Unknown number.
I answered, and Callan’s voice came through immediately, sharp with restrained anger.
“So you finally decided to pick up?”
My hand paused mid-motion while drying my hair.
“Do you need something?”
The silence on the other end stretched for a few seconds.
Then he let out a cold laugh.
“Do I need something?”
“You seriously want to ask me that?”
“Do you even know what today is?”
I walked over to the window and pulled the curtains open fully.
Outside was a city I didn’t recognize.
Slow traffic. Bright morning sunlight. People continuing with their lives like nothing had happened.
“I know,” I said calmly.
“So?”
His breathing immediately grew heavier.
“So you canceled the wedding, blocked me, and disappeared?”
“Evelyn, what the hell are you trying to pull?”
Listening to that familiar tone suddenly felt absurd.
For years, whenever he spoke to me like this, I would immediately start doubting myself.
Was I overreacting?
Was I too emotional?
Was I really being unreasonable?
But not anymore.
“Callan,” I said quietly, “the wedding was canceled five days ago.
“And two days ago, I told you I needed to talk to you.”
“You were the one who didn’t listen.”
A few seconds later, I heard something slam violently against a table.
Probably a glass.
When Callan spoke again, his voice had lowered slightly, though the anger was still there.
“So this was planned?”
“You canceled the venue. The dress. Everything.”
“You let me show up there like an idiot in front of everyone. Did that make you feel good?”
I didn’t deny it.
“A little.”
His voice exploded instantly.
“Evelyn!”
I pulled the phone slightly away from my ear.
Outside the window, a flock of pigeons scattered into the sky.
I waited until he finished yelling before bringing the phone back.
“So you do know what it feels like to be made a fool of?”
“For the last six months, I’ve been sharing my life with a machine pretending to be you think that felt good?”
Callan ignored the question entirely.
“That still doesn’t justify ruining the wedding.”
my fiancé. Did
The hotel lobby was packed with people My entire family was there”
“My mother almost had a blood pressure episode, and Brielle was crying,”
Of course
Even now, Brielle still mattered most.
1 let out a soft hum.
“Why was she crying? Was she the bride?”
His voice immediately hardened.
“Do you have to act like this?”
“What does any of this have to do with Brielle?”
I leaned against the window calmly.
“Then maybe it doesn’t.”
“You’ve always preferred believing that anyway.”
Callan sounded like he was reaching the end of his patience.
“Evelyn, I’m asking you one last time. Where are you?”
“Come back here right now.”
“Explain everything in front of everyone. Tell them you acted impulsively and the wedding’s being postponed.”
For a second, I genuinely thought I had misheard him.
| “Postponed?”
“Yes.”
He said it like the answer was obvious.
“The situation’s already a mess. We need to calm the family down first.”
“You come back, apologize, and I’ll handle my mother.”
“As for the wedding, we can reschedule it however you want.”
Then his tone turned cold again.
“But after today, you and I are going to have a serious conversation about what you did.”
I actually laughed.
“Callan… what exactly makes you think I would still marry you?”
