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Chapter 51

GABRIEL The water was cold enough to shock the thoughts out of my head for a minute but not cold enough to wash out that heat crawling under my ribs, that stupid pounding that had been riding me all day, the one that kept whispering Damian, Damian, Damian every damn time Monica avoided my eyes. I dove under again and stayed there until my lungs started to ache, until the chlorine stung my eyes, until the only sound was the rush of water and the pounding inside my skull. Something was going on between those two. I wasn’t stupid. I wasn’t blind. I wasn’t imagining the way she flinched when I touched her earlier, like she was scared I’d see something on her skin. It pissed me off so bad I wanted to grab the pool ladder and snap it in half. I broke the surface with a gasp and pushed my hair back, jaw locked so tight I could've sworn I heard something crack. My lips were bleeding again because I bit down too hard, tasted iron and yer swallowed it like punishment. And of course, becau

Chapter 52

GABRIELShe leaned forward, voice dropping. “He’s obsessed with Monica. And you? You’re getting played.” My hands curled under the water. The pool rippled with the force of it.Yeah, I was pissed. Pissed at her for talking. Pissed at him for making me doubt. Pissed at myself for caring this much.But I was listening. Damn it, I was listening. Zoey noticed and her smile sharpened. “You two keep hurting each other for no reason,” she said. “And guess who benefits? Her.”I glared, but she kept going, her tone dripping with manipulation dressed as sympathy. “She'll choose Damian at the end of the day because he's her first love. It's all already predestined. Unless…” I didn’t want to ask. I didn’t want to bite. But the poison was already in my bloodstream.“Unless what?” I muttered. Zoey’s eyes gleamed like she’d been waiting for that. “Unless you stop making it easy for them to sneak around.”I stiffened. “What are you talking about?”“I’m saying,” she whispered, leaning even closer, “ma

Chapter 53

GABRIELThey were full on making out.His hands were on her. Her body leaning in. Her face turned toward him in a way that made my blood go cold. Something inside me snapped so hard I felt the crack run through my spine.I sat up slowly, my hands digging into the sheets, my breaths shaking even though I tried to hide it from myself. My stomach twisted so violently I thought I’d be sick. My head was buzzing. My veins were on fire.Monica and Damian are back together? Really? After everything he did to her?That punk has never treasured anything that was his. Growing up we'd both get toys and he'd played with his till he broke it beyond repair. And he was so greedy and selfish that he never shared his toys or let anyone else touch them. So I made it my mission to spite the fuck out of him by competing with him for it and I always won. Always.But even after I won I'd give the toys out. But this time it's Monica. She's not a toy, she's amazing. She's mine.My pulse hammered in my ears, l

Chapter 54

GABRIEL It was insane but the more I thought about it, the more the pieces lined up like they’d been waiting for me to notice.The mixed signals. The disappearing acts. The sudden sweetness. The way she pulled close then shoved away then pulled close again.She had me wrapped around her finger while she was crawling into the back of my own fucking car with Damian.I felt sick.My reflection in the window looked like I’d aged ten years in ten minutes. Eyes wild, hair a mess, chest rising like I couldn’t get enough air. I laughed once, a short, broken sound that tasted like bitterness.“I’m such an idiot,” I muttered, pressing my forehead against the glass. “A complete idiot.”Maybe I deserved it. Maybe every stupid second I spent thinking she could choose me was just karma making fun of me for believing in something as childish as honesty or loyalty or whatever the hell I thought she had.No wonder she was so nervous around me. No wonder she kept dodging the truth. No wonder she could

Chapter 55

GABRIEL Julian's eyes were wild, his hair a mess like he’d sprinted across half the building just to get to me. “Dude,” he hissed, stepping right into my space, “what the hell, man? You hanging out with Zoey now?”I stared at him. “Why can't I?.” he stared at me in confusion like I'd suddenly grown another head. “Okay you can't be playing my bestfriend like this. If you're pissed about yesterday you both should just talk it through. Hanging around with that sea witch isn't necessary. It's messy.”“Ask Monica,”“No, I’m asking you,” he snapped, poking my chest with a finger like he forgot I could throw him down the hallway if I wanted. “Why are you walking around with Satan’s niece like it’s casual Thursday? Did I miss something? Did your brain fall out?”I could’ve laughed if it didn’t burn. “Ask Monica what she did.”“What she did?” He gave me a look and I realised... He knew. “What the fuck are you talking about?”I shook my head, stepping back because the longer he stared at me li

Chapter 56

GABRIELThe bell rings and I knew the lecture was about to start so Monica would walk in soon. But I swear the moment they walked into class together something inside me just… snapped. Damian came in first and then Monica trailed behind him, cheeks lit up red like she’d just been caught doing something she shouldn’t. And of course she checked her phone and of course she went even redder which only meant one thing; Damian texted her something that made heat crawl up her neck. I watched the whole thing with this ugly twist in my stomach, something sour sitting under my ribs. I couldn’t breathe right. Couldn’t think straight. Couldn’t sit here and pretend any of this wasn't driving me nuts.So I stood up. Just stood up and walked out even though the professor yelled my name like he expected me to turn around and apologize or whatever. I didn’t. I didn’t owe anyone in that room a damn thing. Least of all myself.The rest of the day I kept doing this stupid cat-and-mouse shit with Monica

Chapter 57

MONICAI swear my life is dragging me by the hair at this point and I’m just stumbling after it like some drama extra who keeps tripping over the same rock. The morning already sucked because I barely slept, my brain replaying last night on a glitchy loop. Damian’s mouth on mine, my fingers in his stupid perfect hair, both of us lost in a really hot make out, out in the open like we had no dignity left.Like oxygen wasn’t necessary unless it came from each other. And then the guilt. God, the guilt crawled into my ribs and built its own condo there.So walking into school felt like walking into a battlefield I didn’t train for. My head was pounding, my eyes felt tired and my chest aching, and then—of course—my supervisor dragged me into the staff room like I’d committed war crimes.She slammed my transcript on the desk, tapping it like she wanted to stab it into the wood. “Miss Monica, this is unacceptable. You were at the top of your class and now look.”I did look. I wanted to puke.

Chapter 58

MONICAWhen I say nowhere I mean I checked every corner of campus like some deranged stalker and still kept coming up empty. My stomach rolling with this awful mix of nerves and guilt that made me feel like I’d misplaced my whole soul somewhere, and every classroom I peeked into, every hallway I searched just reminded me of how badly I’d messed everything up, how badly I needed to talk to him before things got worse, except it felt like he’d gone extinct or evaporated into thin air.When I finally found him by about to get into his car, my breath snagged because he didn’t even look surprised to see me. More like resigned. Like he already knew why I was there. What I didn't expect though was to be invited to a party. Dominic's birthday party. My heart twisted because he was offering me one night. One night before I tore everything down with the truth. One night before he realized he deserved better than the girl who have him false hope and lead him on just to ride his cousin at the ba

Chapter 59

MONICAThe party had settled into that weird middle space where the music wasn’t as loud anymore and people had stopped trying so hard to look cool.The air was filled with sweat and cheap perfume and laughter that felt real now, not forced, and I found myself smiling without meaning to, actually smiling.My cheeks aching a little because it had been a while since my face did that on its own. Gabriel was standing beside me with a red cup in his hand, his shoulder close enough to mine that I could feel the heat from him but somehow still so far away it hurt, like there was a glass wall between us that I kept pressing my palms against only to feel nothing back.“You good?” I asked him, trying to sound casual, like my chest wasn’t doing that tight thing again, like I wasn’t counting his blinks and the way his jaw clenched when he thought too hard.“Yeah,” he said quickly, too quickly, eyes not quite on me but somewhere over my shoulder instead. He took a sip from his drink even though I

Chapter 60

MONICADamian straightened slowly, his gaze never leaving mine, a smile tugging at his mouth that made my skin crawl. “Careful,” he said lightly, throwing a look around, “you don’t know the whole story.”I felt a presence beside me, solid, familiar, and suddenly Gabriel’s arm was there, not around me, but close enough to block, his face calm in a way that scared me more than anger would have.“Let’s go,” he said, not looking at Damian, not looking at Zoey, just at me.I nodded, numb, my legs moving on autopilot as he guided me away, the music swelling again like nothing had happened. I let Gabriel lead me away from them.I didn’t look back.Just as we walked, I saw a familiar figure. I almost missed him because the party kept swallowing people whole, bodies everywhere, loud music slamming into my ribs, cups clinking, someone laughing too hard like it hurt.But then I saw Julian near the kitchen counter with his back pressed to it like he needed something to lean on. His shoulders look

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