Melomiri

You Loved Her While I Slept

Language: en

When the devastating wildfires swept through the valley a few years after the earthquake that leveled our hometown, my fiancé and I decided to sponsor a high school girl from the hardest-hit area. We didn’t know she would fall hopelessly, obsessively in love with him. She clung to him, inserting herself into every corner of our lives. Preston used to look at her with undisguised disgust. "If I had known it would turn into this kind of mess, I never would have played the good Samaritan," he’d mutter. But on the day of our wedding, she crashed the reception. In the ensuing struggle, she…

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