Raina’s POV
My fingers tightened around the cold porcelain vase, the weight of it heavy and trembling in my hands as if it carried every ounce of betrayal in my chest.
My heart hamred so loud that I could barely hear the moans echoing from the bedroom anymore.
My vision blurred with hot tears, but I didn’t care anymore, I wanted blood... His blood to be precise.
The man I had defended, the man I had loved against all reason, was lying in bed with another woman like everything we shared had ant nothing.
My arms shook as I raised the vase high above my head, my rage spilling out in violent tremors, ready to strike him down for making a fool of .
But before I could bring it crashing down, the girl on the bed suddenly turned her head.
Her eyes widened as she noticed standing there with a vase in my hand.
"MARK!" she scread, her shrill voice cutting through the air and startling as well.
Mark jolted upright instantly and his face twisted in shock when he realized what was happening.
He scrambled up, his bare skin glistening with sweat and his muscles tensed as he realized I was standing there. My grip on the vase loosened just slightly as my mind was caught between fury and devastation.
But the scream had already ruined my chance as he lunged forward, and the vase smashed down on his shoulder instead of his skull.
"Ahh... damn it!" he cursed through gritted teeth as the porcelain cracked against him. His hand flew up to clutch the injured spot, and his face twisted in pain.
I stood there, chest heaving, tears spilling freely down my face. Seeing him naked and completely exposed made sick.
He wouldn’t even share a bed with , all in the na of remaining pure and now, he was standing in front of completely naked.
It made want to vomit so badly.
He looked at as though he didn’t even realize he was nad as he took a desperate step closer, trying to hold my hand.
"Raina, listen it’s not what it looks like," he said with a panicked expression and his voice cracked with urgency.
"Please, let explain, you don’t understand... "he continued but I raised my hand to stop him.
"Don’t touch !" I shoved him backward, I felt so disgusted when he ca so close to .
"Don’t you dare co near !" I yelled angrily at him.
Before he could reply, the girl jumped off the bed. She was quicker than I expected, as she grabbed one of his shirts from the floor and yanked it over her body.
Her hair was a wild ss, lips swollen from kissing him and her eyes were gleaming with hatred as if I was the villain here.
She stord up to and, without hesitation, smacked hard across the face.
The sharp sting sent my head spinning and my hand flew to my cheek as the pain spread across my skin.
My knees threatened to buckle, but I refused to give her the satisfaction of seeing crumble.
She used a lot of force and my ear was ringing as well.
"How dare you?" she spat venomously.
"Who the hell do you think you are to walk in here and attack my boyfriend?" she asked angrily as her body trembled in rage.
Her boyfriend?.
The words sliced through like blades and I could not even co up with any words to reply to her at the mont.
I was too stunned and shocked to even think and the pain in my chest was suffocating.
"Callie, stop!" Mark barked, rushing forward to drag her away from . His hands gripped her arm as he pulled her back, glaring at her.
"Don’t touch her!" he yelled at her while looking at with a worried expression.
I laughed, a hollow and broken sound that echoed through the apartnt.
"Your boyfriend?" I repeated, choking on the bitterness of the word.
My palm burned with fury, and before I knew it, I raised my hand and slapped Mark across the face with all the strength I had left.
The sound of it cracked through the air, leaving a red mark blossoming on his cheek. He froze, staring at as if he didn’t recognize the girl who had just struck him.
"You are filth, Mark," I hissed as my voice trembled.
"I regret ever eting you, I regret every mont, every breath, every piece of my heart I gave to you. I swear, I will make your life miserable for this." I swore angrily while glaring at him with hatred.
Sothing in his face shifted then and his lips slowly raised into a sneer.
For the first ti, he finally dropped his mask.
His desperation to explain, his fake remorse has all faded. He stared at with a smirk.
"Make my life miserable?" he asked with a mocking voice.
"Tell , Raina, how do you plan to do that when you won’t even last in your own family?" he asked with a mocking laughter that sent chills down my spine.
My stomach dropped and my legs almost gave up on .
"You’re naive," he continued, his words felt like sharp daggers in my chest.
"You think you’re strong, but you’re gullible. You were just a spoiled little girl looking for love, and I was smart enough to give you a story you would believe." he said while looking at with a sneer.
My hands trembled.
"What are.. you talking about?" I asked with a trembling voice.
He leaned closer as his eyes darkened.
"Do you really think that night when I saved you from those thugs was fate? Do you think it was so noble act? Oh..Please. That was all Celeste." he revealed and I froze.
"Celeste?" I repeated in shock.
"Yes," he sneered.
"She was the one who told where you would be and she wanted to get close to you. She knew you would fall for the knight-in-shining-armor act.
And you did, so easily. You ate it all up, Raina. Every lie and every performance. And you gave everything I asked for in return." he said with a triumphant smile.
I shook my head, tears streaming down my face.
"No... no, you’re lying. You’re just trying to hurt more?!." I scread at him.
"Am I?" he challenged, raising his brows.
"Think about it, the money, the gifts, the apartnt and the car. Did you really think I wanted you? You were nothing but my cash cow and damn, you were so easy to milk." he said with a smirk.
The world tilted beneath . My knees buckled, but anger forced to stay upright.
"You bastard," I whispered, raising my hand to strike him again.
But this ti, he was ready. His hand shot up and he slapped first, the force of it snapping my head to the side and my ears started ringing again as my vision blurred.
The humiliation burned deeper than the sting.
And then, as if to twist the knife deeper, he pulled the Callie girl into his arms right in front of .
She smirked, while wrapping her arms around him and pressed her lips against his neck as though she was marking her territory.
"You don’t own , Raina," Mark said coldly.
"You never did." he said with a mocking smile.
My hands shook as I pointed to the door, rage burning through .
"Get out!... Get out of this apartnt. It’s mine and I paid the rent. And also return the car too.. it was bought with my money!" I yelled at him angrily.
He laughed in my face and his expression beca even more mocking.
"Yours? Oh, sweetheart, don’t make laugh. Every receipt and every docunt is in my na. You can’t take anything from . You gave it all to freely, rember? That’s what makes this so sweet." he said with a victorious smile.
I felt like my chest was caving in, like my lungs couldn’t draw breath anymore.
He didn’t care about as he turned back to Callie, and without sha or hesitation, he began kissing her again with his hands roaming her body right in front of .
The world crashed down and my heart shattered into pieces too small to gather.
I stumbled backwards, my body moving without thought.
My feet carried out of the apartnt and my tears were blinding as the echo of their laughter chased like ghosts. I didn’t even know where I was going. I just knew I had to get out of this place as soon as possible or else I would run mad.
The night air slapped across the face as I stepped outside. My breaths ca in gasps, broken sobs tearing through my throat. My hands clutched at my chest as if I could hold the shattered pieces of my heart together.
I wandered into the street with no direction or thought.
Just the sharp pain from Mark’s betrayal.
And then...
The screeching of tires tore through the night.
My head snapped up and my eyes widening as headlights blinded .
That was when I noticed that a car was coming straight at .
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