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Disgust creeps up my spine, knowing that I like someone else who isn’t my girlfriend. Over the last two weeks, my priorities have changed drastically, and I don’t know what to do about them. I can’t imagine my life without Vio in it, but I have an obligation to Marrisa.
The team depends on that funding. If I break up with her, we lose a lot of money and I couldn’t do that to the engineers. Imagining the anger on Luca’s face propels me into fear, and my want to please everyone recognizes the fact that I don’t have it in me to break up with her. I refuse to be the person who takes something away, making the team’s lives more difficult than they already are.
Having spent my whole life in anguish, what’s a little more?
I can only be friends with her, but I don’t know how much more I can take.
“Stop that,” Chanel scolds me. My thoughts vanish at the sound of her voice.
“Stop what?” I ask.
“Staring at her like that.” Her hand motions toward me as if I can fully understand what she’s saying.
I do, but I try to make her believe I’m oblivious.
“Like what?”
“Like you want to pounce on her. If she turns around and sees you staring at her like that, her resolve will drop.” Chanel raises an eyebrow of distaste.
“And what makes you think that?”
We’re friends. What’s the harm in that?
“Well, because she likes you and that’s a dangerous game to play when you’re a man who is promised to another woman.”
I sigh, understanding her words with every fiber of my being. I don’t say anything back because she’s right.
“Valente,” Chanel starts. “If you weren’t in a relationship, I would almost jump for joy, which is a rare occurrence,” she points out before continuing. “Because you’re everything I’ve wanted for her since León made her feel like shit.”
Realization runs through me. The fact that Vio is in love with Ale’s brother makes sadness run through me before jealousy overtakes me.
“She can’t take another situation where someone doesn’t choose her completely. When León told her he didn’t like her back, the self-confidence she once had dissipated into thin air.” She sighs in annoyance. “Vio still has a hard time loving herself because she feels like no one wants her. Even though you might tell her that, which I know you will. She will feel it all the same. Your actions and staying with your girlfriend while you know that you like her back will break her. If you do that, I will kill you.” Chanel finishes with a threat that doesn’t even faze me.
How could that son a bitch do that to her? I want to punch him in the face at the mere fact that he made her feel less than perfect.
Because she is perfect to me and if I make her feel the same way he did, even in the slightest, I would break up with her.
I nod in her direction, agreeing.
“Good, you either stay friends or you break up with your girlfriend. That is your choice to make. The first option will make her sad, but she’ll recuperate and find someone who is willing to sacrifice the world for her. If you can’t offer her that, walk away. Because my sister deserves it after all that she’s done. Her whole life she’s put everyone first. For once I want her to be put before anything else.” Chanel can be a scary person, especially with the stare that she’s directing at me.
My head falls in response to her words, which solidifies the fact that we can only be friends.
I’d already known that, but it hurts me even more when I hear it from someone else.
I can’t stay away, so that means anything between us has to be purely platonic.
Amigos. Amigos. Amigos.
I recite in my head before I feel like I’m falling apart at the seams.
Chapter33
Violetta
He’s been avoiding me.
It’s annoying and I’ve had enough of it.
