Abby
“| mean your cheating, of course.”
Gianna’s words cut through the air, leaving me feeling as though I’ve just been sshed with acid. It’s clear that her words were
intended to cut deep, and all the while, Ethan just sits there beside her with a puzzled expression on his face.
My eyes are wide as | stammer out a response. “Ex... Excuse me?” | murmur.N?velDrama.Org owns all content.
An evil smirk tightens her face. “You heard me,” she says, her toneced with pure and unadulterated venom. “You''re a cheater.
| can’t even believe you''re sitting here right now, as if you did nothing wrong.”
Karl and | exchange a wary nce. It’s clear that he’s just as astonished as | am. My eyes slide over to Ethan, though, and his
face betrays nothing.
| can’t tell what''s on his mind; | knew that Gianna must have spread some lies, manipted reality while he was in hisa, and
it seems to me that it somehow worked. But | can’t feel bad for him, not when he’s sitting here silently while his new girlfriend
tries to start a fight at the dinner table.
“Well?” Gianna says with a chuckle, still swirling her drink around in her ss. She takes a slow, calcted sip, her eyes never
leaving mine over the rim of the ss. “Nothing to say, Abby?”
| don’t know what to say. | thought that we were all on the same page here; that Gianna set up that whole scheme to make it
appear as though | had cheated, all for her own gain. And yet, here she is, acting as though | did do it all along.
Before | can muster a reply, Karl suddenly intervenes.
“What the hell are you talking about, Gianna?” he hisses.
Gianna’s eyes snap over to him. “Don’t act like you don’t know,” she says.
Karl lets out a wry chuckle. “Seriously, Gianna?” he replies incredulously. “Abby didn’t cheat. You orchestrated the whole
scenario with that gardener so you could be the new Luna. And now that you''re bitter over the fact that your little n didn’t
work, you now prey on my brother?”
As Karl speaks, his gaze shifts over to Ethan. Ethan''s face is an unreadable mask of stoicism, but | can see the way that his
knuckles are turning white from clutching his wine ss so tightly. If he grips it any tighter, it’ll surely break.
But Ethan says nothing. | feel incredulous; is he really so oblivious, or is he simply refusing to see the truth?
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wanted to get back together with
your cheating ex-wife and you had to
cover your tracks, otherwise no one
would support the rtionship.”
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A tense silence falls over the table. |
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Ethan, who has been mostly silent, takes a shaky sip of his wine and swallows before answering.
“Can we not just enjoy our evening?” Ethan says. “The wine is delicious, and the food is on the way. If we could all just get along
But Karl cuts him off by standing abruptly, his chair scraping against the floor so loudly that other nearby patrons begin to look
our way. His voice isced with disappointment as he addresses his brother.
“You know, I’m truly devastated,
Ethan,” he says quietly, his voice
hardly more than a mere WhISREET
“You we oncpicvaligart strong,
aca Now you''re so easily
swayed by a maniptor like Gianna.
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