ARIANA’S POV
I…I couldn’t breathe.
My legs shook beneath me as I slowly stood, gripping the edge of the armchair for balance.
Ximena’s words kept echoing in my head. They got louder and louder until they drowned out everything else.
Raped.
Pregnant.
And it was all by… Zayn.
I stared at her, then at him, then back at her. My mind couldn’t process what I’d just heard. It just couldn’t be real. It couldn’t.
Ximena sat there, her hands trembling as she looked at me. She looked so fragile and broken. And yet, her words had shattered me instead.
I took a step back, then another, as if creating some distance between us would somehow make this less real. But it didn’t.
“What the hell are you talking about? Are you out of your damn mind?” he asked, his voice low and sharp like he was t
