Chapter 246
Stephanie's POV
My jaw locked so tight my teeth threatened to shatter under the pressure. I felt my knees give out beneath me, as if the bones inside had dissolved into dust. My back slammed violently against the wooden doorframe as I gasped for air, forced to watch the sickening spectacle unfolding before me the final pillar of my shattered emotional fortress collapsing into ash.
Cedric... the man I had given my heart to, the man in whose eyes I used to see my safe haven... the man I believed was madly in love with me and saw me as his one and only. There he was, expelling his filth on the bed of my closest friend the only woman I had ever trusted with my tears and my deepest secrets.
"S... Stephanie!" Cedric choked out my name, his breath ragged, every ounce of his pride melting into sheer humiliation. He scrambled backward in blatant panic, his trembling fingers blindly clawing at his pants on the floor.
