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Chapter 90: The Breakdown (2)

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Leonel

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How the fuck did we end up here?

Evelyn screams as Oliver’s breathing pauses, worried if he moves the knife will hurt him.

But I don’t care. I haven’t slept. My financée left me and still I’m the one having to look for her. I have to defend a company I made by myself, a company I deserve, and now my fucking best friend wants to judge me?

Fuck him.

“Leonel, leave him alone!” Evelyn screams, trying yet failing to pull my knife-wielding hand away. Without looking away from me, Oliver brushes Evelyn away.

“Love, it’s okay.” He whispers, his eyes trained on mine, “let him finish.”

His sympathy only makes me angrier.

“I’m betraying Ava?” I bark at him, “She left me! You hear me? Ava Jade Allard left me! Fuck you!”

“That’s right.” Oliver mutters gently, “Get it out of your system.”

“You think I like this? You think I like the idea of getting together with the woman who broke me when I want someone else? You were there, man, you were fucking there!”

“I was.
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