“Sienna, sure, Nathan is good-looking, but he’s a total player. Don’t fall for the wrong guy.”
“Yeah, just now, he was saying his girlfriend is easy to fool because she’s naive and soft-tempered. Can you believe that?”
“I thought he was actually serious after dating her for years. Turns out, he said she chased him too hard, and he couldn’t shake her off.”
“Right! And he never brings her around. Why do you think that is? Because he never planned to have anything long-term with her. Just earlier, he—”
“That’s enough. Stop talking.” Nathan’s face darkened, and his voice turned cold.
Lucas, being the closest to him, noticed his mood shift and asked, “What’s wrong? Don’t tell me you’re still upset about Bianca coming back?”
My hand trembled suddenly.
Bianca was coming back?
Nathan quickly glanced at me before looking away just as fast. “What does her return have to do with me?”
Lucas chuckled. “How does it not? You don’t care about your girlfriend because you still have Bianca in your heart, don’t you?”
Everyone knew he had a girlfriend he never introduced, but no one knew that person was me.
He would take calls from her at gatherings, speaking softly and sweetly. He sent her gifts every week—never the same, always thoughtful.
Even Lucas thought he was serious about her.
For three years, Nathan had treated me well—gentle, considerate, generous. He was the perfect boyfriend. The only condition he had was that we kept our relationship a secret.
His reason? “You’re still young.”
I believed him.
Until just now, when I heard him say in a completely indifferent tone that I was nothing more than a pastime to him.
Just a pastime.
