𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗢𝗜𝗔

5

Ophelia's POV

After that one day when I met Liliya at the stadium, she never let go of me. She was always showing up in my way, trying to get to know me.

I was okay with her being around me. After all, she was the only one who gave me comfort at college.

Now I was sitting on the bench in front of my college building. Just wasting my free time doing nothing. Actually, I was waiting for Liliya. She promised me to find me during the break and have lunch with me. I don't expect that to happen, since she has a boyfriend and hockey boys were close to her. So she will probably eat lunch with them.

I stood up to finally go into the building when someone grabbed my hand from the back.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" I turned just to see Arden in front of me. His hand had a firm grip on mine.

"Don't you know that everyone is waiting for you at the rink?" he asked me. I tried to read his face but I couldn't understand if he was mad again or if he was serious.

"What? Why would they wait for me there? Don't you know that it's been only two weeks since I injured my leg?" he's so fucking stupid to ask me to go there.

"No one says that you have to go on the ice. I invited everyone to see you apologizing for being a failure in our college" Arden was still holding my hand.

"Are you kidding me? I already told you to fuck off. I'm not going to do anything you say" I tried to release my hand from his but I couldn't.

He's insane.

"You're going to apologize or otherwise-"

"Otherwise what? Are you going to tell everyone that I helped your brother to get drugs and intoxicated him? Is that what you're going to do?" he's blackmailing me for months and I'm so sick of that. I cared about my reputation at this college as a fresh student before, but now... if he wants to ruin my life then he should try. I don't believe that my life can be shittier than it is right now.

Also, I can prove myself innocent. I didn't do anything he is trying to make me guilty of. I have never even seen drugs. It only happened when I found them on my mother's nightstand in her room. I didn't touch them.

"Are you sure that this doesn't scare you? I could put your spoiled ass in jail. I just need to go to the police or say it out loud to everyone" now I could see he was serious about this. He wants to ruin my life and humiliate me in front of everyone. And just for what? For something I never did. I was just there next to his brother, nothing else.

"Have you ever tried to talk to your brother about this matter? Have you? You didn't. Do you know why? Because you believe things that you want to believe in. That's the truth, Arden"

"You always try to make me small in front of you because my parents' money pokes your eyes. You think that everything I achieved on the ice or everywhere else is bought with my parents' money. You also believe your brother who fucking is a drug addict, but not an innocent girl" I was cut off by a slap on my face. He hit me. He did.

"Shut up your nasty mouth before talking about my brother!" Arden yelled into my face. I guess, my words touched his ego or even deeper than that.

"You don't even know me, Arden Nolan. You don't. But you act like a god of justice. At least, close your eyes before weighing the truth" there was nothing else I had to say to this jerk. He's not worth my time or energy. I have plenty of things to do instead of playing his justice games.

I pulled my hand out of his grip with all of my might and left him before he could say anything offensive again.

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