MIA'S POV
"I am just with her to get back at Logan."
Those ten words refused to leave my head. They repeated over and over until they became louder than every other thought.
Why did they hurt this much? Ryan wasn't wrong. We had made a deal. He would pay me. I would pretend to be his girlfriend. That was all. So why did my chest feel so tight every time I remembered the way he had said it? Maybe because he had told Mason. He had promised no one would know about our arrangement. Maybe that was why it hurt.
I hugged my arms around myself as I walked along the sidewalk, my thoughts pulling me in every direction.
I had gone to see Ryan because he had left the house very early today for practice and I wanted to discuss my duties as his assistant. Instead, I had overheard a conversation I w
