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“Do you have any idea what your lies caused?” I scream as the sobs come harder than before. “You guys single-handedly ruined my life! You have no idea what he did to me because he thought I cheated on him! You think sorry is going to fix all the pain he inflicted on me because of your lies?” I ask in a broken voice.
“You had everything, and we had nothing! You were just flaunting around every day like you didn’t have a care in the world while we had to bust our asses off to survive. When you’re starving, a million dollars each sounds like a good investment!” Melanie sneers at me. She’s looking at me with so much hatred and I can see she isn’t sorry for her part in this nor does she care about what happened to me.
“I can’t help the fact that I was born into wealth. You never said anything! If you had asked for help, I would’ve given you help, but you chose to hurt me to get the money instead of coming to me!” I snap at her. Anyone would be able to hear the pain in my voice because everything I’ve learned in the past few minutes crushes my soul further.
“I’m sor—” Archie starts, but I cut him off.
“Sorry isn’t going to take back the fact that your lies made me almost die!” I yell.
“If he loved you, then he wouldn’t have doubted you no matter what he saw. Didn’t you explain it to him or something?” he asks.
“That may be the smartest thing you’ve ever said. I guess he didn’t love me. He fucking ruined me because of your actions!” I cry out as I struggle to breathe. I feel like my airway is closing in and I can’t breathe. I need to get out of here. Otherwise, I may have some kind of breakdown or something.
I quickly stand to my feet and back away from them. I stay facing them because I don’t want to turn my back on them again in case they literally stab me in the back this time.
“Winter, wait!” Archie calls out as he starts to move closer to me.
“Don’t come any closer! I hope the money was worth stabbing me in the back for,” I say before I finally turn around and run away as though my life depends on it. It might as well.
The whole ride back to the hotel I have tears running down my face. The pain inside me right now is worse than anything I’ve ever felt before.
My whole life changed in the blink of an eye because of someone else’s actions, and I can’t even process that right now. I was bullied and tormented because Mason’s dad decided he could play games with my life.
Everyone I let get close to me keeps betraying me. I can’t trust anyone anymore and that’s a hard pill to swallow.
I have no doubt my so-called mother was in on this too and that pains me even more. I can’t believe I was so stupid to trust them as my friends.
When I get to the penthouse suite, I head straight into the bathroom and shed my clothes as quickly as I can. I want to wash today off of me. I get in the shower and before I know it, my body is trembling as all the pain and heartache slam into me.
Pain is the only thing I’m feeling at the moment, and I don’t know how to get rid of it. I slide down the shower wall and let the water beat down on me as I let all the sobs out.
I don’t know how long I’ve been sitting there, but the water has long since turned cold. Someone cuts the water off, and I realize that I’m shivering. I look up and my eyes clash with green ones.
The green ones that have been the bane of my existence since he decided to turn my world into his playing field. The green ones that used to love me until they turned cold. Until they looked at me with nothing but hatred. Until they finally broke me.
“I don’t want you here. Leave,” I say in a voice that sounds cold and dead even to my own ears.
He ignores me and lifts me up into his arms. He puts me on the counter and dries my skin before pulling a robe over me. I jump off the counter and run out of the bathroom, Mason following close behind me.
I make it to the living room and see Hunter. I run straight to him and into his arms before I burst into gut-wrenching sobs.
“Make him leave! I don’t want him here,” I cry into my brother’s arms.
“I’m not leaving! I told you you’re mine! I have no clue who leaked that video, but I’ll get to the bottom of it!” Mason swears in a hard voice. “There’s something else you should know about that video. None of it was real. If you remember, it was the night you set my car on fire. After I was done smacking your ass, I drugged you and then got the guys to pose for the pictures. None of them ever had sex with you, because well, I wasn’t gonna let any of them fuck you. You still belonged to me even though I didn’t want to fucking admit it!” he finishes in a desperate voice, wanting me to believe him.
“God it fucking hurts!” I scream, rubbing my chest, willing the pain to go away but nothing is working. “I never fucking cheated on you! I found that out today. I was fucking drugged and assaulted by someone I thought was a friend, and now you’re saying you did the same with that video?” I scream at him.
I watch as his eyes widen before his face crumples at the blow my words cause. There are unshed tears in his eyes and a moment later they fall. He moves as though he’s coming toward me, but I lift a hand up to stop him.
“Don’t come any closer!” I beg as my voice cracks.
“I-I’m so sorry, baby. I didn’t know,” he whispers, his voice sounding as broken as mine.
“I kept telling you that I didn’t betray you! That I was sorry! That I never cheated on you! I fucking begged you to believe me and all you did was call me a fucking liar, a whore, and a slut! Do you remember all the sick and twisted shit you did to me? I’ve never hated you more in my fucking life than I do right now, Mason King! I despise you!” I scream at him. The pain in my chest, no, in my soul, is obliterating me from the inside out.
“Calm down before you have a panic attack!” he growls at me.
“Oh, now you fucking care if I have an attack? You know what hurts the most? The fact that you didn’t even give me the benefit of the doubt. You just went back to Ravenwood and let someone else hop on your dick while I was left to pick up the pieces! You just fucking threw away everything we had and then you fucking made it your mission to destroy me. I hope you’re fucking happy because congratulations, you won,” I sob. He flinches at every word because he knows it’s the truth.
