Chapter 123. Are You Okay?

June POV

I’m still reeling. The air feels heavy around me, thick enough to choke. My eyes stay locked on the mirror, and the girl staring back looks… unrecognizable.

This girl is pathetic.

I can’t still believe that Hermes has a fiancée.

I can’t even call him Hermes anymore. It feels wrong in my mouth and so I correct myself– Mr. Grande has a fiancée.

The word still feels unreal in my head, like a bad joke no one’s laughing at. Fiancée. I let the syllables echo inside my skull until my chest starts to ache.

So that’s her—the “nobody” he said meant nothing. The woman who apparently means everything now.

Why did he lie about her?

To get into my pants? I can’t even say that because he didn’t even fuck me those days I was in his house.

Ugh!

I sigh, dragging my hands through my hair, my breath trembling as it leaves my lips. My heart feels as though someone’s twisting it slowly, wringing it dry. But I can’t cry. I’ve alre