Chapter 5

Ian slowly looked up, meeting my bloodshot eyes.

"You are completely blind when it comes to her, Ian. You believe whatever garbage she feeds you." I said coldly. "I'm not like you. The vengeance you refuse to take, I will handle myself."

It took me exactly one hour to uncover the truth.

Yet he had blindly believed her lies all this time, never once questioning if she had played him. It was pathetic.

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Long after Stella walked out, Ian sat in a daze.

He kept turning her parting words over in his mind.

Had he been played? A sliver…