After You Hurt Me 99 Times

My mother is in the late stages of cancer. Yet, she sits in a wheelchair with an oxygen tube and endures a long train ride just to attend my wedding with Isaac Pudley.

But when it's time for him to walk down the aisle, I don't see him anywhere despite screaming his name.

It turns out his childhood sweetheart, Megan Ericsson, is having another depressive episode and is threatening suicide again.

"Isaac, I can't live without you," she screeches.

Isaac is always so stern and composed, but he now holds Megan in his arms and begs me to call off the wedding so they can leave.

Relatives and guests watch the spectacle with thinly veiled amusement. To make matters worse, my mother is so angry that she faints.

However, Isaac believes that my mother is feigning illness. He only wants to take Megan with him and leave. He even takes away my mother's wheelchair.

But he seems to have forgotten that he has hurt me 97 times by now.

After he hurts me 99 times, I’ll definitely leave him.

"The groom is leaving with another woman. Anybody in their right mind wouldn't be able to accept it. Is she really going to let them have their way?"

Someone else sniggered. "She and her mother are a curse to men. They can't even keep a man by their sides. How embarrassing!"

Beneath the altar, the guests criticized me. Mom was so mad at Isaac Pudley that she passed out and toppled on the floor.

"Mom!" I shrieked and repositioned her before applying first aid on her by doing chest compressions.

The crowd was startled, but nobody stepped forward to give me a hand.

Flustered, I turned to Isaac and begged, "Isaac, will you please take my mom to the hospital first?"

Isaac watched everything while holding Megan Ericsson. He swept his cold gaze over Mom and said impatiently, "Every day, you said your mother was dying. How much longer are you going to keep pulling this act?

"Megan's depression could cost her life, and she'll be triggered again if another person sits in the car. Are you trying to kill her?"

All he had on his mind was Megan. Even when my mother had passed out, he couldn't care less about it.

He had completely forgotten that it was all thanks to my mother's retirement fund that he could start his business and build his wealth.

How could anyone be this heartless?

Mom didn't recover consciousness even after I applied CPR on her for a while. Seeing this, the crowd slipped into chaos, and someone called emergency services.

The scene was abuzz. When Isaac wanted to leave, Megan stopped him hesitantly.

After he coaxed her several times, she said in a pretentiously soft voice, "Isaac, I feel weak. Since Mrs. Steiner doesn't need her wheelchair, may I use it instead?"

Instantly, everyone turned to me with complicated looks in their eyes, while I stared unblinkingly at Isaac.

Mom and I were