Ticket for Cheating novel Chapter 33

Chapter 7

It hit a nerve. Public opinion started shifting.

[hold up whos he actually dating here]

[put yourself in the brides shoes its suffocating every time she needed him he was with marlowe]

[everyone saying the brides petty hope ur future partner has a best friend just like this]

Caspian saw the post too.

He read it over and over, finally realizing how much I’d been hurting all this time.

He sat there, staring at his phone, emotions all over the place but nowhere to put them.

That’s when Marlowe walked over.

She hadn’t even sat down yet when Caspian looked up, eyes ice-cold.

“You did this on purpose. You made me ditch her so she’d feel like shit, didn’t you?”

Marlowe grabbed his phone, scanning the post.

When she saw the comments ripping her apart, her spoiled-brat side came out.

She scoffed.

“You seriously believe this shit? It just happened. Things lined up. I’m not that fucking bored.”

“Are you even my friend anymore? How do you not know me?”

Normally, Caspian would’ve backed down by now.

But this time, he stared her down.

“Then why the dress? Why that whole fucking stunt? You’re saying you weren’t trying to humiliate her?”

Marlowe froze. Her face twisted with anger.

“Oh, so now you’re blaming me? Caspian, look me in the eye-when have you EVER stopped me before?”

“Every single time I pulled shit, you let it happen. Every. Time.”

“Did I force you? Did I drag you? No. You chose to come with me every fucking time.”

“So it’s all on me now? You don’t get to put this on me!”

Caspian stared at the girl he’d known his whole life, suddenly looking like a stranger.

He couldn’t say a word.

Yeah. Who else could he blame but himself?

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He sighed.

“You’re right. I fucked up. I need to go apologize to Tessa.”

He paused.

“This isn’t about you. This is between me and her.”

“Marlowe, we’re done. I don’t wanna see you anymore.”

“Don’t call. Don’t text. Whatever you need, figure it out yourself.”

Later, Caspian camped outside my studio for three days straight.

Didn’t see me once.

When he finally forced his way into my office, the lily-of-the-valley bouquet in his hands was already wilting.

“Tessa. We need to talk.”

He ignored security, eyes desperate.

“I know you’re pissed. I’m sorry. I was a total asshole that day. I wasn’t thinking about you. I wasn’t thinking about how this would make you

feel.”

“But you know Marlowe. She’s spoiled. She’s always been spoiled. I’m just… used to it.”

“I get it now. I swear, it won’t happen again.”

I looked up at him.

“Caspian, she’s twenty-six. You really think she didn’t know what she was doing?”

“Would your sister do that? Get drunk and call you crying on your engagement night?”

“Would she make you drive to the airport for her cat while I was doubled over with cramps?”

His face went pale.

“I didn’t handle it right. But I get it now. I won’t let her-”

“There’s no ‘won’t’ anymore.”

I cut him off.

“I don’t care if something’s going on with you two. I don’t care anymore. Leave.”

He didn’t move.

“Tessa, we were together for three years. You’re seriously done? That’s it?”

I laughed. Almost cried from how ridiculous that was.

“Caspian, when you kissed her, toasted with her, introduced her to everyone who mattered-did you think about our three years?”

He opened his mouth. Nothing came out.

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My assistant knocked.

“Miss Sinclair, Mrs. Thorne is downstairs. She’s asking to see you.”

Caspian spun around.

“My mom?”

I nodded at my assistant.

“Let her up.”

Mrs. Thorne walked in, shot Caspian a look, then turned to me with a tight smile.

“Tessa, Marlowe’s young. She doesn’t think. But she’s young. Young people make mistakes, right?”

She pushed a jewelry box across my desk.

“You and Cas have been together for years. You can’t just throw all that away. I know what you’ve done for him. I see it all.”

“Mrs. Thorne.”

I interrupted, voice soft.

“My feelings, everything I put into this-it all ended when you humiliated me at that wedding.”

Her face hardened.

“Tessa, that’s going too far!”

“Mom!” Caspian snapped. “This isn’t Tessa’s fault. Go home. I’ll handle this.”

Finally taking my side.

Didn’t matter.

Way too late.

After Mrs. Thorne left, Caspian stayed.

He looked like he’d made up his mind.

“Tessa, I’ll make Marlowe come here. She’ll apologize. To your face. I’ll cut her off for good. I swear.”

“Don’t bother.”

I grabbed my coat.

“If you actually believed it was just friendship, I could’ve respected that. At least that would be honest.”

“But this? Trying to fix it now? You look desperate.”

He insisted on bringing her anyway.

So I said: “Caspian, you’re selfish. She’s fake.”

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“One of you loves the attention. The other hides behind ‘friendship. Both of you cross every line.”

You deserve each other.”

I walked to the door. Then stopped and looked back.

“Keep your drama between you two. Leave everyone else out.”

Then I had a sign put up outside my office:

“No Caspian Thorne. No dogs.”

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