Chapter 83 Betrayed again

Rachel's POV

Tears fell from my eyes as I fell to the floor holding my hands close to my chest.

I felt like an invisible hand was squeezing my heart and making it impossible for me to breathe.

How can Ethan do that to me?

Why was it hurting even more than when I caught David with Lana?

Ethan was not linked to me in any way; he was just helping me... But by the looks of it, it doesn't seem like he was trying to help at all; if he was, why was he with another woman, not just any woman... The person I hated the most in my life.

Picturing Ethan with another woman was disgusting and painful, but I never pictured him with Lana.

What about the woman he was in love with? Did he leave me alone just to meet Lana in a bar?

The more I about it, the more difficult I found it to breathe. I tried to press my lips together, trying to stop my sobbing, but it just wasn't working.

"Rachel?" I heard someone call my name unsurely, and I buried my face deeper in my legs.

Could it be Ethan? Maybe he followed me to apologize or to explain. But that didn't sound like his voice, and what fucking explanation was I waiting for?

When I felt the person touch my shoulder, I raised my head, hoping to see Ethan's bright blue eyes, but instead, a set of brown orbs stared back at me.

" It is you". The person said, I felt like burying myself into the ground.

It was not Ethan; why was it, not Ethan?

I stared at Kyle who had crouched down in front of me, gently using his hand to wipe the tears from my eyes.

" What's wrong? " He asked and I shook my head, more tears falling down from my eyes. " You know what, let's not talk here". He said standing up and stretching his hand towards me.

I looked up at him, and then at his outstretched hand before taking it and standing up.

"Come with me. " He said as he dragged me back up the stairs that led to the VIP section.

I wanted to struggle. Why was he taking me back there?

I was just about to remove my hands from his when he changed direction and opened a different room, and we went in.

It looked like a study... A study in a bar. There was a desk and chair in the far middle of the room, two three-seaters by the side, and then a minibar and the fat end.

" Here". He said, pointing to one of the couches and leading me to sit there, returning back to close the door.

I was alone, with a man in a room, but my brain wasn't even thinking of what would happen.

I just saw Ethan and Lana together, and her hands were around him and he was drunk.

What possible explanation was I waiting for from him? Why was I even waiting for an explanation, I was nothing to him.

"Rachel, are you okay?" I heard Kyle ask and my eyes went towards him.

Was I okay?

That was the first thing Ethan said to me at the bridge when I wanted to end everything.

Then, I was not okay; I was anything but okay. But he made me okay, he gave me a reason to live, he made me believe that I could get Lana back for everything she did to me... Why did he do this to me?

My lips trembled again and I began to sob.

I heard Kyle sigh as he walked towards me. " Rachel, we haven't seen each other for over a year and we met again, but you're crying? You never cry".

I sniffled before giggling, finding what he had just said funny.

" You should have seen me half a year ago". I said why laughing and crying at the same time.

Kyle joined me in laughter, probably to make me feel better. " Half a year ago? What... " He stopped laughing, finally realizing where I was going.

"Yeah, when David and I got divorced.". I said in an inaudible voice but I was very sure he heard it.

Kyle cleared his throat softly. " I'm sorry about that; I tried to reach you, but..."

"It's alright." I said interrupting him.

If there was anything I didn't need right now was someone sympathizing with me over me and David's divorce.

"But from what I heard you divorced him after..."

"They are all lies," I said, nodding my head and looking up at him. I sniffled, wiping my tears with my hands, but they just kept falling, so I swallowed a huge breath while letting it out in one go. "He cheated on me with Lana, and then I found out that she was my parent's real daughter, and I was a substitute," I said trying my best not to cry again.

I had cried too much already because of that... But what Ethan just did, it was like he ripped open a wound of mine that was almost healing. Now all the pain, everything was coming back.

"Holy shit." Kyle cursed softly staring at me with sympathy. "That must have been tough, but I heard that you are now an actress and you starred in the upcoming movie, Snow Fall Love."

I snickered blinking my eyes to hold back my tears. "Yeah I did"

" Then what happened? It can't be that you bottled up all your pain and chose this day to let it out, right? " He jokes with a small laughter and I just stared back at him.

After he noticed that I was not laughing, he changed his laugh to an awkward cough.

I took another breath and shook my head. "I didn't; in fact, I thought I had gotten over it already."

"Then why are you... Could it be because of another guy?" He asked his voice filled with hurt.

Should I answer him?

Kyle Dolan, a high school senior who spent most of his last days in high school trying to pursue me, but I was already with David, and I was so deep in love with him then.

Despite everything he did, I never gave him any attention, but four years ago, we met up again, and we became friends, just friends.

Even right now, I could tell he still had feelings for me... But I couldn't care less right now.

His facial muscles clenched and he frowned. "Tell me the bastard who hurt you again." He said with anger and I couldn't help but smile.

What would he do?

What could he do?

Unlike David, Ethan was practically untouchable. That was the reason I picked him, but now I regretted it.

"Do you know the worst part?" I asked him all of a sudden, my voice trembling and I felt like I was about to cry again, not like I ever stopped.

"It was with Lana," I said nodding my head.

I wanted him to make Lana and David jealous, and I wanted Lana to go after him, but that didn't mean I wanted him to fall for her!

That didn't mean I wanted the both of them to end up together.

" Lana? Your best friend? " He asked in surprise and a hint of amusement.

Best friend? If anything that girl was my worst enemy. "I don't even know if she seduced him or..." I broke down covering my teary face with my hands.

Was it Lana who seduced him? Or had he been in love with her from the beginning and now that David wanted me back, he would just live a happily ever after with her?

My mind just kept making all these assumptions, and I felt like I should just die.

"It hurt Kyle..." I murmured still sobbing." If feels like I got got betrayed again by a person I trusted, I don't know... I don't what to do". I cried, and Kyle got up from his seat and came to sit beside me, holding me in his hands and comforting me.

I was seeking solace in a person that was more or less a stranger to me, because it felt like the more I knew a person, the more easier it was for them to betray me.

Why was Ethan doing this to me???!