Prologue
Betrayal, shock and anger coursed through me. Anger was making my heart pump faster and louder than normal. The shock I I felt had stolen the breath from my lungs. But the betrayal was the worst. It hurt me so much more than anything in the world.
She'd lied to me. She told me she didn't want him. She said nothing would ever happen between them.
There was no warning. There was no way to hide from the ugly truth. She lied straight to my face. No other way to see it. She had purely and simply gone behind my back and taken the thing I had ever been passionate about. Her dirty little hands greedily stole him away from me. There was no turning back.
Our friendship was over.
I didn't know whether I'd be able to trust her again or if I wanted to.
I didn't know how to react. I couldn't move. My whole world had been shaken and I was rendered speechless. There were so many things I wanted to say, so many. Yet somehow not a single word passed my lips.
They continue to laugh and joke around me. Not a single one them noticing how my world had been shattered or my heart broken; not a single one of them. Their joyous laughter continues to add insult to my already broken heart. Their glorious smiles burning images in my brain of happy times I would no longer be a part of.
I swallowed the lump in my throat. I promised myself that I would not shed a single tear. I would not let her see how deep her actions had cut me. No way were they going to see just how broken I was.
Her too innocent grin begs to be smacked off her face. My hand itches with the thought of being the one to do so. But she was no longer worth the effort or time. She was nothing to me.
I get up and walk away. Their laughs and jokes come to a sudden stop. Her smile falters and she directs hher gaze towards her shoes.
Coward.
I continue to make my way to the door. I can already feel the salty tears well up in my eyes. My throat begins to burn and I want to do nothing but scream. I want to yell and shout every profanity I know. I want to run away as far as my legs will take me. I want to forget I ever met them.
Alice Brandon no longer the name of my best friend.
Edward Cullen no longer the center of my universe.
They were as good as dead to me.