Page 79 of How to Get Revenge on a Cheating Ex
His eyes widen and I feel Toni tense beside me.
“What?” he asks.
I wet my lips. This is it. My chance to confront him on the lies, the cheating, the betrayal. “I’m hearing all sorts of stuff about you.” I take a deep breath. “About you and...other girls.”
He flinches. “Bae, I never meant...”
He presses his lips together as he looks upward. His throat works like he might cry or something.
If I hadn’t known him for so long, I might have actually felt sorry for him.
But I do know him, so my stomach turns in disgust. I see right through this act, just like I’d always seen through his puppy dog looks and that cutesy tone he’d use when he wanted something.
His gaze drops back down to meet mine and I feel my gut clench like I might puke right here and now. “Bae, I never meant to hurt you. I can explain?—”
“Don’t. Please.” I look around pointedly at where we are, and that’s when I see Macy and some of his friends from the football team a few steps back watching.
Macy’s smirk says she heard everything.
Grayson shifts forward, his brows coming down in concern. “Is that why...I mean, did you know? Is that why?—”
“No.” My tone is too harsh and I clear my throat.
There’s no way he’s winning this round. I can match his lies.
I can out-play this asshole.
I candothis.
I force my gaze to soften and my lips curl up in a sad little smile. “I didn’t know until today, but I guess…” I heave a big sigh as I shake my head. “I guess it’s best this ended when it did.”
He takes a step toward me. “Bae, let’s talk about this.”
“Not now,” I say, with another sad shake of my head.
I want to vomit on his shoes. I want to jab my fist into his gut and then knee him in the groin. I want to scream at the top of my lungs.
But I don’t. I keep it together.
My head’s spinning and adrenaline floods my veins, but I manage to keep up the pretense, because there’s no way in hell I’m going to let him see how much he hurt me. I cast a meaningful look toward the parking lot. “Look, Zack’s gonna be here any minute?—”
“I can’t believe you hooked up withhim.” His face twists in anger, and that’s when I see it.
I mean, this is when I trulyget it.
It’s not losing me that breaks his heart. It’s the fact that I chose Zack that’s killing him.
It’s the fact that he lost.
Pathetic. He’s so effing pathetic, I feel a wave of nausea all over again, but this time the disgust is with myself for not having seen it sooner.
I bite the inside of my cheek so hard I draw blood, and then I land my last blow in the kindest, most gentle tone I can manage. “You know Zack and I have always had a connection.” I give a helpless shrug. “I guess we just couldn’t deny it any longer.”
“Grayson, come on!” Macy calls out, ignoring me entirely as she grabs Grayson’s hand and tugs him away from me.
I’m still watching them walk away when Zack reaches me.
“Hey,” Zack’s out of breath. “You okay?”
