Ten

Zoraya

"Why would I know an animal like her?"

My heart dropped at his words and a lone tear trickled down my face out of nowhere.

Jayden just denied me. He called me an animal.

My heart shattered into a million pieces as I watched the look on his face as he said that.

I thought that he was different from the others who saw and treated me like an animal. I thought he wasn't like the others who avoided me because of my way of speaking. I thought he was different from the others who treated me ill, but he turned out to be the same as them.

Why? Why did he have to ruin this?

I was starting to get used to having him around. I was starting to believe that he was a nice human being, the best after Zara, but it turned out that I was wrong.

Jayden is nothing like Zara. He betrayed me. He denied me.

I held tightly to Annie and Ronnie, clutching them tightly against my chest as if that would change the pain building up there.

"Then why was she in your cottage?" Someone asked in response