Chapter 314
THERON
I saw Lucian with Willa in the library. As I watched, he pulled up a chair and straddled it.
Of course the asshole would waste no opportunity to be all over her like a rash, I thought bitterly.
"Controlling, arrogant bastard," I muttered under my breath.
Suddenly aware that I was standing between aisles and would easily attract attention to myself, I moved. I went to stand behind a tall shelf of books.
As I watched them, I let my fingers trail over the books so it would look to anyone passing like I was picking out something to read.
Willa and Lucian were too far away for me to hear what they were talking about but their conversation looked pretty serious. Lucian suddenly leaned close, his eyes intent on Willa as his lips moved.
She abruptly looked up at him. There was that soft expression in her eyes, the one that made me catch my breath every single time.
I doubt she even knew it was there.
It made my blood boil to see that look directed at Lucian. He didn't deserve it. He didn't deserve her!
Willa was supposed to me mine.
Yes. I knew we were just pretending. But still...
She had agreed to be my girlfriend for a while. Didn't that involve her not openly allowing other guys flirt with her?
What would the other students who thought we were a couple say if they saw her now?
As I watched them talk, I reflected that our plan was actually working.
Sylvia wanted me back. Lucian's relationship with Willa was slowly but surely getting ruined.
He was getting a bitter taste of what he had done to me and Sylvia.
That was the whole point of the plan, wasn't it?
So why did I feel like somewhere along the line the goal, my goal had changed?
My phone buzzed. I pulled it out of my pocket quickly before it could ring.
I stared at the screen for a couple of seconds.
Speak of the devil, I thought.
It was Sylvia. She wanted to meet up for a drink.
...At our favourite cafe, she had written.
I felt a faint stirring of something, guilt, maybe, at the thought of hanging out with Sylvia.
Guilt?
I laughed silently.
That was ridiculous. Why should I feel guilty for hanging out with Sylvia, the one I wanted to win back?
I turned my back firmly on the two I had been watching, shot off a quick text to Sylvia telling her I would be there.
As I left, I wished it were that easy to get Willa out of my mind. The image of her raising those big, pretty eyes of hers to Lucian was stuck in my head.
I wandered around campus until the time for my meeting with Sylvia.
The cafe was busy as lectures had ended for the day. Sylvia, seated at a table for two, faced the door, was looking closely at any newcomer.
As I walked in, she waved me over.
"Nice of you to come," she said.
She asked for a refill of her drink.
It seemed she had been waiting for me for sometime. Another sign that she was eager enough to meet me.
So where was the spark of triumph o should have felt?
I started, suddenly becoming aware that Sylvia had said something.
"Sorry," I said. "What did you say again?"
Sylvia smiled. The smile did not reach her eyes. "Let me guess, you're thinking about your new girlfriend, right?"
"Just spaced out for a moment there," I said.
"Oh come on, Theron," she said as she accepted her drink. "You know you can tell me anything. I can tell you're so into this Willa girl."
"I am," I said with a grin. "I was telling some of the guys earlier today that she's perfect. She's smart. Beautiful. What more could a guy want in a girl?"
"You're in love," Sylvia said.
I shrugged, not accepting it. Not denying it either.
Let her make of that what she will.
"I've been thinking..." Sylvia said, taking a long, slow sip of her drink.
"About?"
"About us. About why we broke up and all." She sighed. "Sometimes I wish we could turn back time so I could fix the cracks in our relationship. But I guess that's all wishful thinking, isn't it?"
Again, I shrugged.
She said in a wistful tone, "I heard what happened at the cafeteria today." She spread her hands. "Your big declaration of love. Maybe if you had given me even half the attention you give Willa, we wouldn't have split up."
I met her stare dead on. I wasn't letting her pin the blame on me for this one.
"We broke up," I said slowly. "because you cheated."
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