Page 5 of Savage Vicious Heir: Part Two

A burden.

When I’m nothing more than a foolish girl tricked by her heart.

His brother was there. The girl he’s been dating.

The girl he told me meant nothing to him.

God, the way she’d looked at me. With utter disdain and disgust. How could I ever hope to compete with her?

Beautiful, confident, poised. Everything I’ll never be.

I’ve been nothing more than a pawn in their savage, vicious games and now everything is ruined again.

I’m ruined.

Another sob claws its way up my throat. So desperate and ragged, it echoes around the car as I physically try and hold myself together.

Why did he do it?

Why pay Ethan to befriend me? To humiliate and hurt me?

The second I arrived at the pub and Scott intercepted me, guiding me over to their table it was obvious Elliot didn’t invite me to be there. That I’d been set up by his evil big brother. But it doesn’t change anything because deep down, I know if tonight had never happened, Elliot wouldn’t have told me about Ethan, about their arrangement, or the fact he’s still dating Lauren.

What was it she called me?

Pathetic.

I sure feel it.

The signs were there—the rumours. The whispers. But I didn’t listen because Elliot is a master of deception. Of navigating his way around a world I’ll never quite belong in.

Who does that?

Who pays somebody to become someone’s friend?

The jaws of humiliation tighten around my heart and I let out another choked sob as I picture their faces.

Scott Eaton and his gorgeous girlfriend.

Ethan.

Elliot.

His date.

His beautiful, perfect date that looked at me like I was nothing more than a speck of dirt.

Completely and utterly beneath her.

Beneath them all.

I felt it too. Felt so insignificant and pathetic as they all looked at me with a mix of pity and amusement.

He warned me.

Elliot warned me.

Time and time again he tried to warn me but I ignored him. I willingly handed him my heart and my body. All because it felt real. I thought he felt it too.

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