Chapter 1 Caught my boyfriend cheating

Tessa Marvins sat alone at a table littered with bottles, some empty, and others still full, her fingers clenched tightly on a glass of drink half way gone. Reigns and Tiles bar buzzled with loud music and blue lights, Loud enough to make you shout if you needed to speak to your partner. The stench of strong alcohol and cigarettes filled the air, with half naked ladies dancing on poles to the rhythm of the loud, or rather noisy music.

Tessa sat alone, indifferent to the noise and conversations around her, her heart aching, her eyes bloodshot red. She had come here to wash out all of her sorrows and rinse out all of the pains she felt inside.

The loud music was not enough to fade out the echoes that kept replaying in her head. Her mind drifted to events of this evening. The sound of her sister moaning loudly under him, her boyfriend, no, now her ex boyfriend, in their bedroom, banging her with reckless abandon.

Their vigorous activity came to a halt when her briefcase fell to the ground with a loud thud.

Tessa watched him climb slowly off her and her bitch of a sister Abigail desperately tried to cover her naked self with the blankets, looking all flushed and used.

"What's going on here?", she asked, her mind turning blank with confusion and disbelief.

"What don't you understand here Tessa?", he asked with a disgusted look on his face as he leaned against the headboard and wrapped his arms around Abigail, bringing her closer to his embrace.

"How long has this been going on? Cheating on me with my sister on our bed, few days to our engagement and still having the guts to pretend like nothing's wrong?", she laughed, not in humour, in anger. Her eyes stung with unshed tears.

"Tessa please.. Cut the crap. I'm not interested in those dramas. Few days to our engagement? This relationship has been over a long time ago, I'm surprised you could only see that now. Oh.. right. You're too busy. You don't even spend time with me. You pretend to be all modest and won't give up your dignity. What can I say? You couldn't consider me your boyfriend. I needed a break from all those dramas", he scoffed, his voice tinged with annoyance.

Tessa smirked, "A break? Is this what you call a break? Sleeping with my sister on our bed? I've been busy.. with what? Working devotedly for your company. You could've ended the relationship without insulting me like this.", her voice rose in anger.

"Now that you've caught me, I think you've realized you don't have a place here. You may as well leave. There's no engagement happening between us", he said acting all indifferent and unbothered about her feelings.

The girl beside him smiled sheepishly, glaring at Tessa, but she ignored her. The fury building up inside her was directed at the man in front of her. Or rather, the boy in front of her. She couldn't believe she had spent two years loving someone who had no intention of loving her back.

"You're disgusting", she whispered.

"C'mon Tessa, we both know how this is. You're just someone I picked up from the wrong side of the city, and gave you a good life. You should be thankful to me for that privilege, not come here being some drama queen", he said, mockingly.

Tessa was stunned, shocked and number from the betrayal. "Good life? Keep your good life to yourself. Here I was, thinking that what we shared was love. But now I see you've only ever seen me as a garbage you picked on the streets", she laughed dryly.

"You're not even a legitimate child, just a leech feeding off from the Marvins family, and you think you can use me to climb up the social ladder. You had the guts to dream that big"he scoffed.

Her eyes glistened with tears, filled with pain and betrayal, but she didn't let them drop. She forced it all in, she couldn't let him see her weak, this scumbag and her asshole sister didn't deserve her tears.

She picked up her suitcase, glaring at them both, "I never have the habit of staying where I'm not accepted. And when you realize you've lost the only real thing in your life, I'd be far too gone by then", she said and left the house in an elegant and graceful manner with nothing but her pride.

She took one last look at the house. This furnished multi million dollar house had been what she called home in the past two years. She had gotten used to being called the lady of the house and the future wife to a multi millionaire, but reality dawned on her that all of this was a sham. A total facade.

To him, she was nothing but trash he picked up from the roadside, bathed her, and adorned her with gold ornaments and jewelries. He gave her a life many people only dreamt of at the expense of her pride and dignity.

A self deprecating smile formed on her lips as she walked out of the building. She let out a sigh coated in pain and humiliation, but a tiny hint of relief.

Tessa downed the remaining contents of the glass in one gulp as the painful memories flooded her mind.

Once she left, she had made up her mind. No more rich men, no more smooth talking liars wrapped in designer suits, no more empty promises wrapped in dollar signs. She was done. Done with the lies and the love that made her ache.

She paid her bills and quietly exited the bar. The cold air hit through her as she stepped out, brought out her phone and called her best friend Ava. She needed a place to crash for the night.

She staggered across the busy streets in the dark nights, her mind swirling with pained emotions. A piercing screeching of brakes seemed to pull her thoughts back to reality as she turned to see the vehicle few centimeters away from her. She fell to the ground with a loud thud.