“Piper... Piper,” I mumbled through clenched teeth, my voice barely more than a hiss. “Whatever game you’re playing won’t end well for you.” The words dripped from my mouth like venom, filled with a bitterness that tightened my chest. My hands shook as I gripped the edge of the bed, trying to steady myself, but the rage swirling inside was impossible to contain. How could someone I once considered a close friend, someone I had trusted with the most intimate details of my relationship, betray me so cruelly? She had known everything. I told her all of it. Every argument, every tender moment, and every flaw of Draco’s made me love him more deeply. And now, thinking back, it felt like she had been studying me, analyzing every story I’d shared like some twisted strategy game. She knew exactly

