He Lost Me to His Best Friend novel Chapter 489

Yardley instinctively moved to push Veronica away.

But before he could, a drippingly sarcastic voice sliced through the air from behind him.

"Wow. Your daughter is lying sick in a hospital bed, and here you are, flirting with some woman at the front doors. Typical trash behavior."

Yardley stiffened. He immediately shoved Veronica aside and spun around. Talia stood a few yards away in casual clothes with a backpack slung over her shoulder, glaring at him with open hostility.

His gaze dropped a few degrees in temperature. He opened his mouth to snap back, but Veronica beat him to it, her tone sharp and aggressive.

"Who the hell are you? What gives you the right to talk to my boyfriend like that?"

Yardley froze. Boyfriend?

He tried to interject, but the word had already acted like a match to gasoline. Talia exploded, unleashing a tirade:

"You have got to be kidding me! You string Scarlett along, refusing to finalize the divorce, while parading around with a shiny new girlfriend? You really are a piece of work!"

Talia raked her gaze up and down Veronica's outfit, clicking her tongue in loud, theatrical disgust.

"Your taste has really tanked, though. You had an incredible woman, and you threw her away for... what? This brightly colored harpy?"

Veronica’s face turned a mottled red with instant fury. She jabbed a finger—complete with a long, cherry-red acrylic nail—right at Talia.

"Who are you calling a harpy?!"

"Do you have any idea who I am? How dare you speak to me like that! You... you're simply..."

Accustomed to constant deference, Veronica had never been humiliated so publicly. She was so furious she was practically sputtering.

Talia just crossed her arms, a cool, unbothered smirk on her face.

"I'm looking right at one. What normal person dresses in such a glaringly obnoxious outfit to visit a hospital?"

Veronica felt like she'd just been slapped. The casual way he distanced himself was a physical ache in her chest.

She bit her lip hard, swallowing the toxic brew of resentment and humiliation. Despite her overwhelming frustration, her obsession with him won out. She forced down her anger and silently followed him into the hospital.

-

Upstairs, Scarlett knew Talia was arriving and had been waiting by the elevator banks in the pediatric wing.

The moment they saw each other, the two women collided in a fierce, tight hug before linking arms and stepping into the elevator.

Talia couldn't wait to spill the tea, her eyes dancing with wicked amusement as she recounted the entire confrontation by the main entrance.

Scarlett listened quietly, her eyes narrowing into dangerous slits.

"If I had to guess," she murmured, "the brightly colored harpy you just annihilated was Veronica Thorne."