Harper
“Are you out of your mind?” Grayson spat, his voice slicing through the air and making a few heads turn, but he didn’t care that people were watching and just wanted to lash out at me. “Look what you did to my wife!”
He held up Tiffany’s wrist for me to see and I spotted a huge red mark which wasn’t there before. I knew right away that she’d done that to herself but made it convincing enough so he’d buy into her performance.
I opened my mouth with a hundred things to say and a hundred ways to defend myself, but the second I heard the rage in his tone, my words just crumbled in my throat. It wasn’t just that he believed whatever Tiffany had said to him, it was that he didn’t even ask me. He didn’t give a shit about my side of the story and that cut deep.
“Can’t you just fucking move on?” He scowled.
My eyebrows furrowed. Move on from what? From years of friendship that he easily threw away?
“You just had to go this far to get my attention, right?”
“What?” My voice was barely above a whisper.
“I told you to stay away from us, that’s why I blocked you everywhere. You knew that the only way to get my attention was to come after my wife.”
Tiffany wrapped her hand around his arm, her face now resting on his chest while she was still fake crying. I spotted the smirk and that only infuriated me even more. If only he could look down at her, he’d see what I saw. But why would he when he was so focused on lashing out at me?
“Right now, you’re a lot of things,” he said, grabbing my attention again, “but what I didn’t expect was for you to be this cruel to someone who’s pregnant. How could you push her to the floor like that?”
“Did she tell you what exactly hap-”
“I don’t give a shit what happened!” He cut me off with gritted teeth. “You hurt her. That’s all that matters.”
“She’s the one who was provoking me,” I retorted as I shot her a glare. “She constantly called Anna a whore, trying to bait me, but I didn’t fall for it. I walked away.”
“Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for making up such lies?” Tiffany chimed in, her voice filled with practiced innocence. She pressed her hand against her chest like she was barely holding herself together. “If that’s what really happened, how do you explain the marks on my wrist?”
I exhaled sharply. “You did that to yourself.”
Grayson scoffed. “Now you just sound ridiculous. I don’t even know why I’m still listening to you when I know you’ll make anything up just to paint yourself as the victim in all this. This is your last warning, I’m not going to let anyone hurt my wife, not when she’s carrying our little one. Try this again and I’ll get you arrested.”
My heart broke into a million pieces. He actually threatened me with no hesitation. The fact that he took it that far left me at a loss for words even when I parted my lips to speak
“Look at you now, that definitely shut you up,” he said mockingly.
“Actually, no.” I held my head high, making him tilt his head a little in surprise. “I was just processing how dumb you are. You’ve labelled me like some kind of obsessed freak but let me make one thing clear. My world doesn’t revolve around you. If I gave you that impression before…” I stepped closer, my eyes locked on his. “Wake the fuck up. I seriously don’t care if you never speak to me again. All I’ve ever done is look out for you, but you’ve never given a damn.”
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