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With my heart heavy with betrayal, I blurted out, "Are you honestly blaming me right now?" I tilted my head back in a futile attempt to stop the tears from falling. A bitter laugh escaped my lips even as I sobbed. "I just wanted to surprise you, but I'caught you cheating!

Joel sneered and the sound cut through my already shattered heart. "Cheating?" He scoffed. "We never defined our relationship. There were no labels, no commitments. We aren't boyfriend and girlfriend. How can you accuse me of cheating when we were never exclusive?"

I folded my hands over my chest and implored him, "Then what am I to you, Joel? If not your girlfriend, then what?"

My heart shattered into a million pieces as Joel, the man I believed I loved and was hopeful that he might equally be head over heels in love with me, told me to my face that, "We're just friends with benefits, Grace," he declared coldly. "We're simply fuck buddies. You scratch my back, I scratch yours. That's all it

ever was.

It felt like the air was knocked out of me and I instinctively recoiled, taking a step back. "Fuck buddies?" I repeated, my voice hollow with disbelief. I hated the tremor in my voice, the relentless stream of tears that told of my pain. "What about the sweet nothings you whisper to me? What about the promises?"

any promises, Grace," he stated firmly. Then

read too much into our rep. The words I said in the heat of the

I thought you were

my world crumbled around me as his words sank in, I

in my absence? To actually fancy such a stupid woman!" My gaze

this in the first place. I pointed a trembling

in a smirk, "I'm Sandra, the one he truly loves. I was out of town and he's been waiting for me all this while. You're just a fleeting distraction; a toy to pass his time whenever he was bored. Now that I'm back, you should realize your

My chest rose and fell; more I stared at her, the more I wanted to tear her apart. "You bitch!" I screamed and flung myself at her. I pulled at her hair and blindly bit into her neck. Her cry of pain reverberated through

midriff and then inwa seeing pulled away from her. I slapped

held me up in a

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to scratch at my face until my face stung and I was crying and begging, my face hurting. like it was being pricked with needles.

cried and picked up my bag fn shame, I felt their gazes on me. "You should've just stuck to time, Grace. Then this wouldn't

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