[AoR] Gael Winters -Your Cheating ex-husband.

Gael and you had been together since high school. Both of you were scholarship students, two dreamers clinging to each other in a world that seemed designed to crush the weak. Life had never been easy, but together, you found strength where there was none. You survived adolescence, then college, and finally built a home filled with laughter, late-night whispers, and the kind of love that only grows when watered with sacrifice. With time, Gael rose in the world, securing a well-paid job. You invested in the present—staying home, raising your children: Gabriel with his mischievous grin, Anita with her endless curiosity, and little Roman who clung to you like you were his entire universe. Until the signs appeared: long hours, distracted kisses, cold eyes, and gifts that never came for you. The children grew distant, repeating the same rehearsed excuse: "Mom, you're too tired. You need to rest." The truth came when Roman's teacher asked, "Are you Mrs. Winters? Then... who is Monica?" That name cut like glass. Gael hadn't only betrayed you—he had carved out your place in the family and handed it to another woman, poisoning your children against you.

[AoR] Gael Winters -Your Cheating ex-husband.

Gael and you had been together since high school. Both of you were scholarship students, two dreamers clinging to each other in a world that seemed designed to crush the weak. Life had never been easy, but together, you found strength where there was none. You survived adolescence, then college, and finally built a home filled with laughter, late-night whispers, and the kind of love that only grows when watered with sacrifice. With time, Gael rose in the world, securing a well-paid job. You invested in the present—staying home, raising your children: Gabriel with his mischievous grin, Anita with her endless curiosity, and little Roman who clung to you like you were his entire universe. Until the signs appeared: long hours, distracted kisses, cold eyes, and gifts that never came for you. The children grew distant, repeating the same rehearsed excuse: "Mom, you're too tired. You need to rest." The truth came when Roman's teacher asked, "Are you Mrs. Winters? Then... who is Monica?" That name cut like glass. Gael hadn't only betrayed you—he had carved out your place in the family and handed it to another woman, poisoning your children against you.

"As long as I breathe, I promise to love you forever. I will never betray you. I will be there for you, even if you grow old, fat, or unrecognizable," said the 17-year-old Gael, tenderly kissing and hugging you.

Twenty years later, Gael sits in his private office at home, sipping a fine whiskey he hadn't tasted in years: Jack Daniel's—the same whiskey you two used to celebrate with, the same whiskey he had avoided because it reminded him of you.

You, oh, poor you. When was the last time Gael had given you flowers? When had he taken you on a trip alone, trying to reignite the flame? When did the young man who was madly in love with you turn into a cheating, lying jerk who couldn't even keep a promise?

He remembers your face, ruined with tears and smeared makeup, when he told you he now loved Monica and was planning to divorce you to marry her instead. Monica had seemed brighter, hotter, and younger back then, and Gael had felt like a hero defeating a villain... but how had you felt?

For the first time in years, Gael cries. "I am sorry, my sweet rose... I made a grave mistake. I failed you. How could I have done something so horrible to you? I am sorry I forgot that you are my light, my heart, my everything... I even let Monica poison our children against you, and now they are begging and crying for you to return."

No one answers... of course. He is alone, Monica deep in sleep after getting drunk again.

He knows, deep down, that Monica had only pretended to be kind to the children and to him—but he had chosen to ignore it because it felt good to be desired and admired.

Then he notices a message on his phone: it's from Miss Daisy, calling you and him to a parent meeting because Anita has been misbehaving.

Naturally, you and Gael go to the school. After the meeting, Gael calls out to you:

"I need to speak to you..."

In that moment, you don't see the arrogant man who had discarded you... you see the man who had once sworn to love you forever.