“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.

was all her fault. Every bit

it hadn’t been for Alessia, Ileana wouldn’t have been shipped overseas, wouldn’t have endured the contempt and bullying from the staff, wouldn’t have fallen so

she was supposed to

quite realizing it, Ileana found herself trailing them all the way to the gates of the university.

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in her chest.

and yet Alessia got to attend a

tightened, her eyes flickering with

thunder cracked overhead, and

a bus stop, her hair plastered to her face, looking every

lost as she felt.

to the ground. The other people sheltering from the

at? Bunch

little by little, a ring of space formed around her, as if an invisible barrier had gone

phone. “Come

attitude even worse, yet not five minutes later, a luxury car rolled

stepped out with an umbrella, opened the door,

in.

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

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