ELLE P.O.V
“What are you doing here, Kate?” My voice shook as I stood frozen in the doorway. The scene before me felt like a knife sliding into my chest.
Lucas’s face drained of color. “Elle… it’s not what you’re thinking. It was a mistake—”
“A mistake?” I cut him off, trembling. “Explain yourself. All this time you’ve been parading her as your childhood friend while you two were sneaking around behind my back?”
“Stop it, Elle!” Lucas’s voice cracked. “Please. It’s not—”
“Oh, don’t ‘please’ me.” I turned to Kate, who was biting her lip like a guilty child. “And you—mocking me behind my back, smiling in my face while you plotted this. You’re nothing but—” My voice broke. “—cheap.”
Kate’s eyes widened. “Elle, I swear it was a mistake. We didn’t mean—”
“I said stop!” My voice echoed of
