He Said I Was Overreacting, I Said I Was Over Him Chapter 08

He Said I Was Overreacting, I Said I Was Over Him Chapter 08

Zoe let out a dry laugh. “Anna, I had acute gastroenteritis that time. You came to visit me,

remember?”_____

I nodded, picked up my tablet, and played a video I’d saved a long time ago.

In the footage, Zoe was laughing casually as she talked to a group of friends. “Can you believe how unlucky I am? I ended up in the hospital just from a kiss! He was bored waiting for me, so he ate a

mango mousse. And I’m severely allergic to mango.”

“I pushed him away, but he was so clingy. We hadn’t seen each other in days, and he just kept kissing me. I didn’t get a chance to stop him!”

“What can I do? I just let it go. That’s what happens when you like someone.”

“He was terrified too. He swore he’d never touch a mango before seeing me.”

All the color drained from Zoe’s face. She asked in disbelief, “How did you get this… Were you

eavesdropping on us?”

I didn’t answer and kept playing the recording. “I left the allergy medicines at home. The side effect makes you drowsy anyway, and I was too lazy to grab them.”

The recording stopped.

I wiped the tears off my face and laughed.

“Lucas, tell me. Why didn’t you want to get me a mango latte that day?”

“Why did you refuse when I asked you to take a sip?”

He couldn’t stop swallowing. He was clearly scrambling for some excuse.

But the abortion report was right there in front of him, he didn’t dare lie again.

My laughter turned cold. I exposed him without mercy. “You wouldn’t drink it because you were going to see Zoe that day, weren’t you?”

“Were you going to kiss her? Where? In the stairwell? Some hidden corner? Or are you gonna slip drugged juice into my drink again?”

Lucas opened his mouth and said, “No, Anna, that’s not what happened…”

“We… I’d already decided to talk to her and end it for good!”

“Anna, you’re the one I love. I just lost my head for a moment…”

“Bastard!” My dad finally snapped back to reality and charged at him, furious. “How dare you treat my daughter like this? I’ll kill you!”

The scene erupted into chaos again.

In the end, Lily threw herself in front of Lucas, sobbing hysterically. “Don’t hit him! It’s not his fault!”

“It was that bitch Zoe who seduced him! The pills were hers too! She’s the one you should be going

after!”

Zoe looked at me with a complicated expression. “Why did you record that video when you came to visit me in the hospital? Did you suspect me back then?”

I shook my head. “I recorded it because I wanted to capture how happy you’d be to see me.”

When I found out she was sick, I panicked. I dropped everything at work, bought her favorite

flowers and fruit, and rushed over.

All the way there, I was thinking about how to cheer her up.

Zoe looked away. She knew what happened next.

When I pushed open the door that day, the first thing she said was annoyed and cold, “Why are you

here?”

I asked how she was feeling, but she just scrolled through her phone, grunting vague replies.

I offered to peel an apple for her and she refused.

I tried to check her hospital records. She snatched them away and told me not to snoop, that it was

just acute gastroenteritis.

I didn’t think much of it back then. I just assumed she was in a bad mood because she was sick.

But it wasn’t until yesterday, because of that Mango Latte, that everything clicked into place.

I couldn’t hold it in anymore. “We’ve known each other for almost twenty years. I’ve always treated you like family. You knew Lucas and I were about to get married. How could you betray me?”

Zoe dropped all pretense. She didn’t bother hiding her disgust for me anymore.

“Anna, I hate you.”

“You have loving parents who spoil you, a good family background, a decent job. Lucas waited on,

you hand and foot like you were a princess.”

“But me? My dad’s a gambling addict, and my mom abandoned our family. When I finally found someone I liked, he turned out to be a serial cheater.”

She glanced at Lucas and sneered. “I just wanted to see if there was any such thing as a faithful man in this world. Turns out he was that easy to hook.”

“Love is bullshit. It’s all fake. If I can’t be happy, then no one gets to be.”