Chapter 12: Chapter 12
537 words<html><head></head><body><p>The engagement party was filled with guests.</p> <p>Liam stood on stage, pouring his heart out in a passionate declaration.</p> <p>Just as he reached the most emotional part, the hall doors swung open.</p> <p>Mia Lowell stood there in a white wedding dress, microphone in hand, shouting at Liam.</p> <p>"Liam, I'm here to marry you!"</p> <p>"Today, I want everyone to know you love me, not that promiscuous slut Olivia!"</p> <p>I stood on stage with my back to her, struggling to hold back laughter.</p> <p>Liam watched my reaction with amusement, tapping my head gently.</p> <p>Then he turned to Mia with a stern expression.</p> <p>"Please be silent! My heart has always belonged only to Olivia."</p> <p>"Someone two-faced who betrays friends like you? I wouldn't touch you with a ten-foot pole."</p> <!-- /22796784223/Netlink/arkmoremoney.com/banner_in_article_4 --> <p>"Stop misleading everyone with these false claims about our relationship."</p> <p>Mia stammered, completely bewildered. This wasn't according to plan.</p> <p>"But Liam, you said you wanted to be with me! You promised to break up with Olivia!"</p> <p>"You're lying! I don't believe you! You love me! Is Olivia threatening you? Don't be afraid - come to me and we'll face this together!"</p> <p>Sorry, but I couldn't hold it in any longer.</p> <p>I turned around, smiling at Mia. "Let me guess - you and Liam have been secretly messaging, pledged your love privately, and planned to humiliate me today by having him leave me for you?"</p> <!-- /22796784223/Netlink/arkmoremoney.com/banner_4 --> <p>Her eyes widened in shock. "How... how did you know?!"</p> <p>I chuckled. "Silly girl, because you've been talking to my alternate account all along."</p> <p>"Now for everyone's entertainment - please direct your attention to the big screen!"</p> <p>The massive screen displayed my carefully prepared PowerPoint presentation with over 100 slides.</p> <p>It contained all of Mia's attempts to seduce Liam through messages, her provocative photos, even pictures of her hospitalized after the vibrator incident at work.</p> <p>There were news links about her being caught in lingerie at a hotel affair.</p> <!-- /22796784223/Netlink/arkmoremoney.com/banner_in_article_3 --> <p>The hall erupted in chaos. Mia completely lost it.</p> <p>Standing there in her white wedding dress, she might as well have been naked before everyone, exposed to their ridicule and contempt.</p> <p>"Wasn't Mia supposed to be Olivia's best friend? How could she stab her in the back like this?"</p> <p>"Look at these messages - she's been spreading horrible rumors about Olivia's character. Disgusting."</p> <p>"She threw away all self-respect for a man? Following his every command? What a shameful woman."</p> <p>"Who does she think she is? Believing Liam would choose her over Olivia? The audacity!"</p> <!-- /22796784223/Netlink/arkmoremoney.com/banner_in_article_2 --> <p>"It's you! You knew all along! You played me! Olivia, you bitch! I'll kill you!"</p> <p>She lunged at me but her injured foot and long dress made her stumble.</p> <p>She fell flat on her back without even touching me.</p> <p>I looked down at her coldly. "None of this would have happened if you hadn't entertained these wicked thoughts."</p> <p>"Mia, after everything, I kept asking myself - what did I ever do to deserve your hatred? Why destroy me like an enemy when I genuinely considered you my friend all these years?"</p> <p>"Stealing my man was bad enough. But you even spread rumors in high school that I was bullying others? Getting me isolated by classmates? You hated me that much over a decade ago?"</p> <!-- /22796784223/Netlink/arkmoremoney.com/banner_3 --> </body></html>