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of blood filled my mouth when I tried to lick my aching,
bruised lips. Her friend kneed me in the back of my legs,
and I fell to my knees.
“You’re easily disposable, Lila. I claimed Maddox a long
time ago, and all the girls of Berkshire know he’s my
property. That’s the same as playing with fire.”
Maddox… her property?
My stomach cramped, and I busted out laughing. This
was probably the most hilarious shit I’ve heard in this
decade.
They looked at me like I was a maniac. Maybe I was.
I was about to get my ass beaten, and here I was
laughing at my assailants.
Bethany hissed, her face growing red. Poor little,
insecure Bethany.
She pressed her thumb against my bleeding lip, and I
forced myself not to flinch. She smirked and pressed
harder. It hurt so much that unshed tears burnt the back of
my eyes. “You’re as pathetic as I thought. Dirt poor, not
beautiful enough, so easily forgotten and so easily
replaceable that you had to grab onto the richest and most
popular guy.”
Her voice told me everything I needed to know.
I was poor and beneath them. Maybe I wasn’t as pretty
or as rich as Bethany and the rest of Berkshire, but…
Bethany, she felt threatened by me.
“I don't slut shame, but I can smell a bitch from a mile
away,” I said lazily. “You smell of jealousy. Very stanky. Go
take a shower, sweetie.”
Bethany gave me a disdainful sneer, her face twisting,
and I saw all the ugliness she hid beneath the sweet girl
mask that everyone loved and bowed down to.
She was Berkshire's official Queen, a pretty face with a
nasty soul and a hideous heart. Her minions still had their
hands on me, holding me in place and keeping me from
attacking them. They had successfully trapped me; my