Chapter 35

MELISSA

"I've never seen you before, and today you're next to him; you're together with him, and I don't understand why. I'm better than you at everything; I come from a very important family in society, I'm famous because of my work, and I'm much prettier than you. So why did he choose you?”

Now I begin to understand perfectly what she's telling me: she likes Jacob a lot and thinks I'm a threat. I just stare at her in silence when I see her sigh and smile wryly.

"I've been trying to win Jacob over for years. I've tried every possible way to get him to look at me differently, but nothing has worked, and now you show up with him. I never give up, and I'm not going to give up on Jacob," she says coldly as she enters the mansion, and I sigh.

Was that a threat? Jacob and I aren't together, so she can keep trying to win him over. There's nothing between me and Jacob, but I remember what happened on that balcony, and I think about what could have happened if she ha