“I’m telling you, you’ve got the wrong person.” The smile on Fortune’s face was slipping fast.

He shoved Ileana away with a forceful push.

“Why are you treating me like this?” Ileana’s voice trembled, raw with hurt. “I gave you everything–everything I had! Why are you doing this to me?” Ignoring the sting from her scraped palms, she scrambled after him, desperately reaching for the

hem of his trousers.

“Let’s go. Must be some lunatic from who knows where.” Fortune dodged her grasp, backing away several steps.

Their roommate watched the scene unfold, eyes flicking between the two, but ultimately chose to say nothing and hurried after Fortune.

Ileana tried to chase after them, but a swell of pedestrians blocked her path. By the time she made it through, Fortune was already gone.

She scoured the crowd anxiously, searching for him–only to spot, instead, the one person she despised most in the world: Alessia.

Right then, Alessia was strolling down the street toward campus, hand in hand with Cole, their fingers entwined.

Of course they’d witnessed the drama, but neither seemed interested in getting involved. To them, it was nothing more than a passing spectacle, a bit of entertainment in an otherwise ordinary day.

But what Alessia saw as amusement, Ileana saw as a fresh wound.

She clenched her fists, glaring daggers at Alessia’s retreating figure.

her fault.

the staff, wouldn’t have fallen so far. She’d

Mortons or the Tates, she was supposed to be the one in the spotlight,

to the gates of the

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in her chest.

high school, and yet Alessia got to attend a

with envy and

streetlights flickering on as she wandered the city with nowhere to go. Suddenly, thunder cracked overhead, and the sky opened up. Rain poured down, drenching

her hair plastered to her face, looking

lost as she felt.

The other people sheltering from the rain

you looking at? Bunch of worthless nobodies!” she

of space formed around her, as

phone. “Come pick me up.

was sharp, her attitude even worse, yet not five minutes later,

an umbrella, opened the door, and waited for her

in.

her hair at the onlookers and gave a haughty snort, as if that alone could

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