Rafael Moretti
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“Rena! Come see this! Your boyfriend is getting engaged in two weeks!” I heard the unmistakable voice of Serena’s best friend, Lila, faintly over the phone.
My blood ran cold. Nikolai’s engagement had been announced?
“It’s on all the major gossip blogs in the city! There’s even a picture of the pair going into the hospital together!”
“Serena–“
She cut me off. “I have to go.”
Then the line went dead.
I stared at the phone in my hand for a few seconds, my hand tightening around it like it was the cause of my problems.
I felt like calling Nikolai and asking him what Lila meant by that. Was it true? Had they formally announced his engagement to Elena Solokov? The same woman that both of us couldn’t stand?
I opened the first major social media platform and the first
