Chapter 2

Chapter 2.

Sienna was startled by my voice. She snatched the phone from my hand, and her face turned bright red when she saw the post.

"How dare they! These people have no shame!"

She started typing furiously on my phone, her thumbs flying across the screen.

I watched her through a haze of tears, tempted to stop her, but she held me down with one hand.

Finally, she let out a long breath and handed the device back to me.

"You're such a pushover, Quinn. No wonder he thought he could do this a hundred times."

I couldn't even argue. I looked at the screen and saw a wall of scathing comments she had left.

She had said everything I had been too afraid to say for years.

Suddenly, I burst out laughing. I threw my arms around Sienna and sobbed into her shoulder, soaking her shirt.

"Thank you. Thank you so much."

I had chased Miles for three years and lived with him for seven.

We met when I was hospitalized with a head injury. Back then, I had grabbed his coat with teary eyes.

"Doctor, am I going to turn into an idiot?" I had asked.

He had gently moved my hand away, his expression unreadable.

"No. Though I think you might already be one."

I had burst into tears right there in his office. He looked panicked and pulled a sour lemon drop from his pocket to quiet me.

"I was kidding. Please stop crying."

I had taken the candy, and just like that, I fell for him.

Later, after a night of too many drinks, things happened between us.

He was wasted, and as he pressed me into the mattress, he whispered a name: "Zoe."

My heart turned to ice. My name wasn't Zoe. I didn't even know who Zoe was back then.

I tried to ask, but he silenced me with a kiss. I closed my eyes and let myself drown in the moment.

The next day, we made it official. He brought me to his house, and it became our home.

Two years later, with everyone cheering us on, I proposed to him. He said yes.

I thought it was the start of my happily ever after. I thought maybe, one day, he would look at me with real warmth.

But then, Zoe showed up at our door.