Chapter 32: Chapter 32

Vega POV.

Becoming a millionaire overnight felt strange. I stared at my account balance, counting and recounting the zeros to see if I was making up everything but it was the money staring right at me and it was very real. So why wasn't I happy at all when this kind of money could solve all my problems, including that of my mother?

"Earth to Vega, oh my gosh, you're spacing out again" Jake complained, then stared at me in concern. "Are you ok. You can just tell Zach everything tomorrow, I'm sure he's going to forgive you".

"How do you know that?"

"Because I just know and we should be celebrating yeah. You're a fucking millionaire, you can do whatever the fuck you want" he said enthusiastically but I just couldn't share the moment with him.

"Zach's gonna be so pissed I'm sure of it," I said, then dragged my hands through my hair until the sharp pains on my scalp made me stop.

"Just break up with him, then you're good to go".

The door flung open and Andrianna came in looking pale as death. I and Jake were soon on our feet, rushing towards her.

"What's wrong," I asked, my hands clutching at her arms because she was holding me tightly.

"Ray... He got shot".

I almost let go of her in shock but I managed to hold on. "What do you mean shot", I asked and Jake nodded along, his face shrouded in horror.

"I don't know Vega. He was shot in the front of my house just as he stepped out of his car. What if... What if... " She gasped, then went quiet. "I don't think he's going to make it".

"Don't say that... I'm sure he will" I assured, looking towards Jake for support and he quickly nodded.

"But the cops are going to get involved. I might get implicated. This is just horrible, I mean we should be celebrating you winning the bet by becoming Zach's girlfriend, but here I am freaking out about that jerk dying. What am I going to do" she cried and I was going to Pat her when I noticed Jake looking like he was getting a heart attack from staring at a ghost. I followed his gaze to the door of my room where Zach stood, clutching at a squeezed paper.

"Fuck!" Andrianna gasped.

Zach turned on his heels and I don't think, even tho something In the back of my mind tells me to let him go and calm down first before I tried to explain to him in the heat of the moment, instead I run after him until we're outside my house. He was still moving forward despite how I shouted at him to wait so I reached out to grab at his shirt and he whirled to face me, the pain in his eyes raw and agonizing. My gaze slipped to the Bandage around his knuckles and the blood that coated it, and the fear that gripped my heart in vice had me grabbing at his wrist to examine the cut.

"You hurt yourself".

"Do you fucking care!" He shouted, snatching his hand out of my grip, the veins on his neck almost popping out as he stared at me.

I spluttered because he looked really angry. "I do care about you... And about what she said... Andrianna was just... I mean what you heard her say...".

"What? You're going to lie and say she was joking, making it up" he snapped, his word scathing in their intensity. "Arielle already told me everything and I told her she was a fucking liar, I let her know that you'll never do that, that you truly loved me. I defended you Vega, so tell me to my face if it's true".

My heart stuttered painfully in my chest as my throat dried. "I was in on the bet, but..."

He roared, punching the air, then turned to face me as a tear spilled down his cheek and my heart broke into a million pieces. I reached to touch him, to explain everything but he just shoved my hands away.

"So this was all a stupid game to you. You approached me because of money and told me to my face that you loved me" he accused, his voice raspy as he tried to breathe through his words.

"I did! I fucking did. But I love you Zach" I yelled because it scared me that everything was going to be destroyed between us if I didn't try to salvage the situation. "I didn't from the beginning but I did at the end".

"Just so you could win the fucking money, you freaking golddigger" he snapped in my face with so much venom it had me taking a step back and I felt the anger crawling up my chest.

"I'm not a golddigger because I didn't take your fucking money. I fucking had to risk all my savings just to join in on the bet. Did you think I was going to let it all go, just like that huh".

Zach laughed and it sounded broken, almost manic. "The truth's finally coming out huh"

"You're fucking rich Zach, you don't understand what that money means to me, or my mother. I've always been threatened by the likes of Arielle all my life for being poor, my mother too, I needed that money to give my mother and me a chance at a better life, and let's be real, it's not like you were going to stay with me forever were you. You're a fucking playboy, you were going to dump me in the end" I shouted, my chest heaving as he stared at me, the silence dragging between us and it was so thick, I could slice it with a knife.

Zach's expression changed so fast that I felt like I was staring at a different person. The green of his eyes grew cold, his lips drew up in a smirk and his whole demeanor changed.

"You're right Vega".

"What?" I asked, confused because I didn't know what I was right about.

"About the 'dumping you' part." He said, shrugging. "You're not even my type of girl. I guess this whole drama was just because my ego was hurt that you were in on the bet and I didn't figure that out early enough. You made me look stupid in the face of people that mattered".

"What?" I asked, my heart burning as I stared at him.

"Don't be so dumb Vega, it was all a game with you. You're not even on my level, and yeah you going through a whole makeover just to get my attention was cute hence why I pretended to notice you, but I have to let you In on a secret tho" he said leaning closer. "You're still as ugly as you once were despite all that trouble," he said and it felt like I was getting doused in cold water. "Yeah, I guess if I didn't have any other option, you'd be an easy fuck".

My hands struck his cheek before I could stop myself, tears slipping down my face because his expression remained unfazed. My head told me he was just saying those nasty things to hurt me but it still hurt, a whole lot that it got hard to separate the truth from the lie.

"You're a pathetic virgin girl and you'd probably still be one after this because no one will want to be with someone as hideous as you".

He was cruel, vicious even as he crushed my heart the same way I did his. This was definitely the end for us even tho a part of me didn't want it to be.

"I hate you!" I whispered fiercely as I wiped my tears.

"The feeling is fucking mutual." He said, then grabbed my arms and pulled me to him, his lips covering mine before I could shove him off.

Lust warred with my anger and won as he devoured my lips, his teeth nicking on my bottom lips as he pressed his body against mine as abrupt as it began, it ended all too fast, then he shoved me away as I trembled where I stood, staring at him.

His smile was eerie. "As I said, too fucking easy.".

"Get out, go and never come back here" I gasped out, my hands shaking as he scoffed, then walked away, taking along the pieces of my crushed heart.