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I was part of a famous duo with Brayden Reynolds in the industry.
He once shielded me from a stalker's acid attack and chose to go public with our relationship at the height of his fame, giving me a sense of security.
Everyone believed our story would end like the songs I wrote for him.
A perfect finale with the couple walking hand in hand toward happiness.
But then that girl sang our love song in a live stream, duetting sweetly with Brayden.
She even sent me the recording.
"Thanks for the hit song, Eve," she said. "And thanks for shaping Brayden into such a great man. From now on, he's all mine."
At the end of the video, Brayden stood half-naked, his back revealing a jagged, ugly scar.
I made a phone call, cranking the speaker to max, savoring the woman's fading screams through the receiver.
"Eve Walton!" Brayden's fiery rage burned in his eyes, but I just smiled and slapped the divorce papers and settlement agreement in front of him.
...
The living room was packed.
I counted twenty-eight people Brayden brought to confront me, two more than the witnesses at his proposal.
"What exactly do you want?" His temples throbbed with anger.
"You publicly sang our love song with her, and she had the nerve to taunt me, the real deal, to my face. And you have the gall to ask me that?" With a loud smack, I slammed my phone on the table.
Brayden's gaze flicked to the scar, his face tightening. "It was just a young girl's prank."
He lowered his voice, his tone ambiguous. "As colleagues in the same company, is it wrong to help her gain some attention? As for taking off my shirt, it was just a spilled drink. A coincidence."
"Listen to the nonsense you're spouting!" I grabbed a coaster from the table and hurled it at him. "Brayden, did you get kicked in the head? Don't you know how the media will spin this? After eight years together, we've finally made it this far, and you want to…"
"Enough!" Brayden slammed the table.
His resolve reminded me of the day he fought the company to sign me alongside him.
But today, I sat on the opposite side.
"You wrote plenty of hit songs for me, but I've also brought you fame and fortune. Eve Walton, we don't owe each other anything!"
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