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tell her as much, she was lifted off my body, and Kennedy was at my side. “Oh my God, are you okay?”
    “Let go of me!” Stella fought Dane’s grasp. She elbowed him in the face, but he didn’t let go of her.
    “I don’t think so,” he grunted.
    Kennedy helped me up, and I rubbed the back of my head.
    “What did she do to you?” Asked Kennedy, her eyes looking me over. “Did she hurt you?”
    “She deserved it!” Snapped Stella. “Let go of me, or I’ll scream!”
    “I’m going to get Reid,” said Kennedy.
    “Do you think he’ll believe any of you over me?” Stella laughed, sounding like a maniac. “She attacked me , I was just defending myself. I came around the corner, and - ”
    “And what?” Kennedy asked angrily. “We found you on top of her, swinging like the crazy bitch that you are!”
    Dane dropped Stella onto her feet, and stepped away from her. “Reid is going to hear about this,” she said, walking away briskly. She disappeared around the corner, and all I could do was stare after her.
    What.
    The.
    Fuck.
    “You okay?” Asked Dane, his brows furrowed.
    “Fine,” I replied. “She just...”
    I shook my head, and winced when a slow, steady throb reverberated through my skull.
    “You need to find Reid,” Kennedy told Dane. “I’ll take Jade upstairs, and make sure she’s okay.”
    I grabbed onto Dane’s arm, and stopped him. “No, don’t. Just drop it. I’m fine.”
    “She was hitting you,” cried Kennedy. “We have to tell Reid!”
    “You’re probably too late,” I replied. “She’s probably already spinning him some fucked up version of what happened. I just want to go to bed.”
    Dane and Kennedy both looked at me with concern, and as much as I appreciated it, I couldn’t stand their pity. I wanted to be left alone.
    “I’m okay, really. I’ll just see you guys in the morning.”
    Kennedy pursed her lips, ready to argue, but Dane spoke up. “If you’re sure...”
    I nodded, and started walking towards the elevator. “I’ll see you in the morning, okay?”
    They let me go, and as soon as I was in the safety of the elevator I let the tears fall. What the hell had just happened? Stella’s cruel words bounced around in my head, stuck on repeat.
    He doesn’t want you.
    All you were was a fuck.
    The doors were about to close, but they opened up again, and my head lifted.
    “Jade?”
    Reid was standing on the other side of the open doors, his face marred with a glower.
    “Reid.”
    “You want to explain why you hit my girlfriend?”
    A sick laugh escaped my mouth, the sound ripping through me like a blade. Sure enough, Stella had presumably told him what had happened, only in her version, she was the victim.
    “Is that what she said?”
    “No, I saw her face.”
    It was my turn to glower - only it wasn’t so much in anger as it was confusion.
    “Her face?”
    Reid threw his hands up in the air. “Yeah, her busted lip and swollen cheek. Why would you do that?”
    “I didn’t,” I replied, leaning against the elevator wall.
    “Oh, so she ran into the fuckin’ wall and did it to herself?”
    Probably, I thought.
    She’d proven there were no limits to her crazy.
    “I can’t believe you,” he said when I didn’t respond. “Why, Jade?”
    I stared at him, and wondered when we had fallen so far from where we’d been. I was looking at a complete stranger, and yet everything about him was still so familiar. He was all I knew for so long, and now he looked...disappointed. In me.
    Oh, the irony.
    I was disappointed in myself too.
    For allowing myself to become so disconnected from who I was and for allowing his psycho Hobbit girlfriend to goad me. I wasn’t this girl. I didn’t just lie down, and tolerate people walking all over me.
    I straightened from my position against the wall, and stuck my chin out.
    “You need to ask Dane and Kennedy what they saw, because you won’t believe anything I have to say. Stella attacked me , Reid, and she made it