An Intense wave of agony and excruciating pain began to consume lan. He leaned back against the wall and closed his eyes. His knuckles were aching, and his eyes were still closed. He looked in chaos.
Anyone who witnessed him in this state of rage could only hope he never opened his eyes again.
It was then that lan’s thoughts returned to the day that he had seen Ava in Robin’s room.
He recalled how that day she appeared surprised to see him When he came angrily toward her, she was shocked. It was clear that she did not comprehend the reason he was upset with her. The memory of the surprise in her eyes when she saw herself wearing the shirt and the hickeys around her neck, was still fresh in his mind.
She was crying while saying that she did not know anything She was begging him not to leave her.
But…
He did not believe her. He thought he had caught her, so she was only acting.
He was so cruel!
He was so blinded that he never imagined Robin could trick him. He had never considered the possibility that it was a plot against them.
How could he have thought that?
He had received many photographs of her and Robin meeting and entering Robin’s dorm. How could he have thought Ava knew nothing?
Something hit his mind as his eyes flung open. His eyes were a deep red color. There was a haziness within them, which revealed the anguish and distress that he was going through at the time.
The thought of Robin touching Ava while she was unconscious left him dazed. He could not imagine what the boy, had done to Ava.
The rage and guilt were blazing from within. All he wanted to do was hurt himself for not trusting her that d day.
“Ian?”
When he heard Ronald’s voice, he turned around.
Ronald had just emerged from the corridor and looked at lan. Ronald looked guilty as well. But he remained silent as he approached his best friend.
Ian looked away from him and tried to leave his side.
Ronald grabbed his hand and checked on it.
“You have hurt yourself!”
Ronald sounded irritated as if lan had harmed himself before.
Ronald examined Ian’s wounds, recalling that lan had another wound like this on his same knuckles the previous night. It appeared that this man was about to break his bones and become disabled.
“Did you hear her, Ronald? She…”
lan paused, his lips trembling. When Ronald saw his best friend in such a bad state, his heart tightened. It was
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obvious that lan was controlling himself as much as he coul
Ronald knew how much lan had loved Ava. He was crazy about her. So crazy that even in the mouth of death, he “thought about her. But his fault was he misunderstood that girl.
“She was completely innocent, lan. We… we all misunderstood her all these years,” Ronald uttered, lowering his
gaze.
Ian yanked his hand and took a few steps away.
“No! Not you all. I am the one who got it wrong with her. She had expectations from me. I was her boyfriend, not you all. How could I do that to her?”
He wanted to punch the wall one more time. But Ronald hell his arm, trying to stop him from hurting himself.
“lan, this is not the place. Please calm down. Why don’t we leave the party? You need some space right now.”
Ronald was afraid that his best friend would do something wrong out of anger.
Ian shook his head. “No. I want to talk to her.”
Ronald paused upon hearing him. “What will you say to her?”
“L…
He had no idea what he was going to say. But he only wanted a chance to talk to her right now. He glanced through a window that allowed him to see inside the hall. He noticed Ava was talking with Dane. She had a happy expression.
Tan felt a pang in his chest. It was not that he was upset about her happiness; it was because she was happy with someone else.
In his mind, he kept hearing her words from the times when she had told him about Dane. Every time she talked to him about Dane, she always said she was loyal to him. By her thrilling tone and confident voice, it seemed that the man really took care of her.
She had already told him that what he could not give her, Dane had given her that which was trust.
So basically, in that love story, it was he who betrayed Ava
He was the one who broke her heart and shattered her, not realizing it would crash him too.
Ronald noticed lan’s lost expression as he stared at Ava and Dane together. He let out a sigh and went inside the club.
He could not see lan in a broken state. They had been each other’s closest friends for such a long time that they were able to feel each other’s suffering
While gazing at Ava, Ronald started to walk into the hall. His gaze was so fixed that he could not see the young woman in his way.
A collision between the two of them caused the beer that she was holding to spill onto his gray jacket.
“What the hell!
Ronald said while brushing his jacket. His eyes shifted to the woman as he spoke,
“Don’t you have an eye-”
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He paused when his eyes locked with hers. It was Abigail, Ava’s best friend.
Abigail looked shocked as her eyes were on his wet jacket. Her lips parted as she apologized.
“I am so sorry!”
She hurriedly lifted her hand and began wiping his jacket with the tissue in her hand.
Ronald’s eyes darkened as he focused on her face. He glanced at her hand before returning his attention to her face.
He then asked her a question that prompted
“Are you with that Bruno guy?”
her to raise her head and look at him.
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