Chapter 0197
“You want to talk about friendship?” She asked, stepping closer to me. “You are the one who wasn’t acting like a friend. You lied to me from the beginning and now you are angry because I’m the one who has the upper hand? You are pathetic and my father deserves better than to be played by you!”
My blood went cold.
“What are you talking about?” I asked her. “I never lied to you…”
Even as I spoke those words, I knew they weren’t true. But Irene couldn’t possibly know the truth about Ethan and me… could she?
Telling from the crazed look in her eyes… it was a possibility.
“You have been lying to me since the second we met!” Irene hissed; her eyes filled with a fire I had never seen before. “You told me nothing was going on between you and Ethan, but you lied of me, Judy! You didn’t tell me you were his fated mate!”
I was stunned that she knew this information.
How did she find out?? I wasn’t sure what to say, so I stared at her, dumbstruck.
“Nothing to say now, huh?” She murmured, shaking her head, her eyes filling with pity and disgust. Have you been sleeping with him this entire time? Is that why you never said anything? Am I the fool here? Are you and Ethan screwing-
“No!” I said sharply, cutting off her words. “Ethan and I are no longer together.”
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“Don’t bullshit me,” she said, tears filling her eyes. “You don’t just break up with a fated mate. It’s not possible. Either you did something so terrible that it made him walk away from you, or you are still screwing each other, and this is some kind of sick plan to get close to my father. I don’t know what your game plan is, but it’s not going to work!”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” I said, shaking my own head. “I’m not playing you, Irene. I’m not the one you need to be worried about!”
“I can’t believe a single thing that you say!” She hissed, stepping closer to me. “You are a liar, and I thought you were my friend. But that was a lie too. You were never my friend. You were plotting against
my fiancé.1” me from the beginning. You were after
“Ethan is not the saint you think he is…” I tried to reason with her; I wanted her to see that she was engaged to a monster, He was the one she needed to be mad at.
Tears streaked down her cheeks.
“No, you are the mastermind,” she said. “Ethan would never deliberately lie to me.”
Was she serious?
“Irene-”
“Just shut the hell up!” She growled and before I knew what was happening, she grabbed my hair and yanked me to the ground. It was all so sudden that I had barely enough time to react. I didn’t want to
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hurt her, even though I knew I could take her down quickly. I just wanted to defend myself, so I used my defense mechanisms to avoid her punches.
looked in the villa foyer; two girls screaming and rolling around the I couldn’t imagine how I must have ground. I’m sure it was pathetic. The second Gavin appeared in front of us, I knew it before I even saw him. His aura was strong, and it washed over the both of us immediately.
Irene only coward a little at the force of his Alpha powers, probably because they were of the same blood, so it didn’t have as strong an effect on her. But for me, it hurt badly. I screamed in pain as my head felt like it was about to explode. The force of his Alpha powers pushed me into the ground so hard that I felt my nose bleeding from the pressure,
“Irene, tell me what is going on here?” Gavin ordered his daughter, his wolf close to the surface.
“She betrayed me,” Irene whimpered, her bottom lip trembling. “She’s been with Ethan the entire time … she’s his fated mate!”
Gavin released me from his Alpha power, and I let out a breath of air from the relief. I didn’t dare move from the ground though. I was a mess; my nose was bleeding and apparently, I had been crying without even realizing it.
“What did you just say?” Gavin asked Irene, his eyes narrowed.
Irene sniffled and wiped her eyes.
“I said, she’s been sleeping with my fiancé!”
At that moment, the front door shut, and we all turned our attention to the person standing before us.
I was faced with a wide–eyed Ethan.
