The Billionaire's Secret Baby

Chapter Two

“Wh…what's this?” I asked, my voice was shaking as hard as my body.

“Don't tell me you're blind now. How are you going to explain your way out of a picture of you f*****g another man?” Matteo was yelling now as he stalked towards me and snatched the phone out of my hands, thrusting it in my face. “How the hell are you going to explain this, Sofia?”

“It's not me, I swear it's not me.” I was full on sobbing now, not caring about the crowd staring at us anymore. “I have no idea who it is in that picture, I know what it looks like, but I swear it's not me, Matteo. I've never cheated on you, I would never cheat on you. I love you, Matteo, you know that. I have no idea where you got that from, but that's not me, you know I would never do something like that.”

“It's over between us, Sofia. I don't want you texting, calling or even coming anywhere close to me. I don't need your explanations, I would simply prefer to pretend like you never existed. You know what I can do, you know how powerful my family is, and you're lucky I'm leaving it at this, so don't try to push your luck.”

Sofia…this was the first time he had called me by my actual name in what felt like forever…and he was breaking up with me because of something I didn't even do. I wanted to scream and yell that I had no idea who it was in that picture, that I didn't cheat on him, but looking at Matteo now, I knew it was pointless. The way he was looking at me…he had already made up his mind even before coming to confront me, and there was nothing I could do to change it.

I opened my mouth, but before I could say anything, phones started dinging one after the other, even mine. I looked around in confusion as people started taking out their phones and staring at it in shock before staring back up at me with disgust written on their face.

No…no-no-no-no-no…. I didn't need to open my phone to see what it was, but I did anyway, accepting the notification to open a photo attachment. I stared at the same picture Matteo had just shown me a few seconds earlier, knowing that several people had seen this…had seen this photo of someone who was supposed to be me, having s*x with someone else, something that wasn't my boyfriend.

How…who was behind this? My head was spinning and I couldn't breathe. I felt like I was suffocating as the whispers kept getting louder, and I could feel eyes boring into my skull.

“I should have listened to my friends when they told me you were just a gold digging whore.” He continued, staring down at me coldly. “Since you were just after my money, I hope you enjoy everything I got you, it'll be the most expensive things those hands will ever touch.”

I had nothing to say, no way to defend myself anymore. With proof of my supposed cheating out in the open, nobody would believe me anyway.

Taking my silence as an admission of guilt, Matteo scoffed and turned around, walking away. The only thing I could do was stare at his back with tears streaming down my face as he walked out of my life.

Finding an empty classroom, I rushed inside, shutting the door behind me and sliding down the floor as more tears streamed down my face. It feels like someone is squeezing my heart so hard that I can't even breathe anymore.

I had no idea how long I stayed there, but by the time I had calmed down enough to leave the classroom, it was already dark outside. I walked slowly to my dorm building, keeping my head down to avoid being recognised, but the school was already empty and I didn't run into anyone.

I walked into my dorm room…a single room that Matteo had used his family connections to reserve for me. It was three months until graduation, but would he send me packing? I had no idea, and I couldn't even contact him because his threat was real. He could ruin my life if he wanted to, and I should be grateful he only dumped me.

I still hadn't come to terms that it was really over between us. I kept checking my phone, expecting a call or a text from him, but there was nothing there, just the picture of someone who looked just like me having s*x with another man…a picture that must have circulated all over the school by now.

I was the kind of girl that blended into the background before Matteo and I started dating, and he brought me into his world of money and fame. Almost everyone in school had heard of Matteo Anderson, the heir to Anderson Tech, and now I was the gold-digger who had dated him for his money and cheated on him.

It still felt like a dream…it had to be a terrible dream that I was going to wake up from. I would wake up in Matteo's bed with his arms wrapped around me, I would…. A choked sob tried to escape me, but I shoved it down, walking towards my bed and ignoring my growling stomach.

My stomach would have to wait till tomorrow along with everything else. Maybe I'll be able to figure out what to do after a night of sleep.

Letting my bag hit the floor with a soft this, I slid out of my clothes, leaving it in a pool on the floor as I climbed into my bed, laying over the covers and wrapping my arms around my body. I promised myself that I wouldn't cry anymore but I couldn't stop the tears that leaked down my face until I finally fell asleep after what felt like hours.