Chapter 60. Shut Up!

LENA

Carla enjoyed watching me suffer. It was clear in her eyes. She relished it, and she had no qualms about me realizing it. I don't know how I was with a crazy person like her for so long. We were inseparable. The best friends in the world. She stabbed me in the back and took my husband.

"How could you have been my friend?"

"You're just naïve, Lena. I always told you I was interested in Dean. Remember my flattering comments about him? You failed to notice. And in the blink of an eye, I had him in bed. Has he ever told you that story?"

No, Dean never told me how the story began. I never asked, and he never dared to bring it up.

"I don't care to know," I wiped away my tears.

"Oh, well, he and I bumped into each other at a bar by chance. He had just finished work and wanted a drink. Dean believes we met there by coincidence," she laughed. She smiled as if it were amusing. Carla was a dangerous