Wait…Why Did Everyone I Love Suddenly Call Me a Bitch?! novel Chapter 16

Chapter 8

Piper, sitting in the gallery, went white. She grabbed Grayson’s hand without thinking.

It was quick, but not quick enough. Everyone saw.

Grayson’s voice turned vicious. “Sloane! You’re really gonna fake evidence just to get out of this? I didn’t know you were this fucked up!”

I was so done.

He was so obsessed with Piper, nothing I said mattered anymore.

I pointed at the screen with all the data logs.

“Grayson, I torched your laptop because it was leaking every single thing Hartwell had.”

“The remote access? Came from Piper’s IP.”

Piper’s face crumpled. Tears started.

“Sloane, you hate me? Fine. Come at me. Don’t make shit up about me!”

Everett didn’t even look at her. Turned to the judge.

“We need this verified. Now.”

Given the massive amount of money involved, the judge agreed.

The results came back: all evidence was real. Nothing forged.

I didn’t even look at Grayson. Just kept going.

“Your mom never messed with us. So why the hell did she just show up the day after the wedding and walk right into that shit?”

Grayson’s eyes shot to Piper.

Her voice cracked.

“I didn’t… it wasn’t…”

I pressed play-

Piper on the recording, using my number, telling Grayson’s mom to “come grab some stuff real quick.”

Then I pulled up the receipts-

She’d been paying off a nurse to poison her.

Her voice on the tape went ice cold.

“Keep that bitch barely alive, she’s got him locked down forever.”

“He ain’t ever gonna love Sloane for real.”

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Grayson lost it. Went straight for her throat. Eyes completely gone.

“WHY?!”

“I MARRIED HER FOR YOU-YOU TRIED TO KILL MY MOM?!”

Court officers pulled him off.

Piper shook her head, crying, insisting I’d set her up.

I kept my voice flat. “Grayson, all those deals you lost? Who got ’em?”

He stumbled. Barely standing.

Vincent Thorne. The guy who hates him most.

I pulled out screenshots. Texts between Piper and Vincent. Sexting. Graphic as fuck.

Grayson stood frozen.

“Get it now?”

“She didn’t love you. You were a fucking ATM-someone to steal shit from so she could get with the guy she wanted.”

Piper knew she was done. Grabbed his hand and slapped it on her stomach.

“Grayson… I’m pregnant. It’s yours.”

“I know I fucked up… but the baby… please…”

Grayson looked like he’d been hit by a truck. Took him forever to say it.

“I’ll divorce Sloane. I’ll marry you.”

“But you don’t leave the house. Ever.”

er nodded like crazy.

“Yes! I won’t! I swear!”

I cracked up.

“Grayson. Fun fact.”

“Your parents only said yes to me ’cause you shoot blanks.”

“Rich girls don’t want that problem. So they grabbed some random nobody.”

I looked at her stomach.

“So who’s the dad? Really?”

Everett’s voice came outta nowhere. Cold as ice.

“I never wanted her. Our families set the whole thing up.”

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“Week before the wedding? Got snipped.”

That left one guy. Vincent.

Grayson fucking lost it. Backhanded her straight to the floor.

“You SLUT! You’re knocked up with Vincent’s bastard!”

Years back, Vincent caused a wreck that almost killed Grayson.

That shit never got buried. He’d been going after the Thornes ever since.

And now? Turns out the girl he worshipped was Vincent’s spy the whole time.

Hit him worse than dying.

The courtroom went insane.

Outside, cameras lost their minds. Flashing like crazy. Whole place lit up in blinding white.

The news blew up everywhere.

Grayson became the city’s punch line.

He ran up to me. Eyes totally bloodshot.

“Sloane, I was so blind. That bitch played me…”

“I fucked up. Can we try again?”

I shook my head. Didn’t even blink.

“I’m not a trash can. I don’t take garbage.”

The verdict dropped:

Grayson and me? Done.

Since he cheated and we weren’t married long, I only had to give back twenty percent.

Piper got nailed for stealing company secrets and trying to kill someone. Ten years.

But since she’s pregnant? She gets two years before she goes in.

Outside, Everett handed her the divorce papers.

“Sign it.”

She tore them up. “You think you can just throw me away? HELL NO!”

“I only went after Vincent for YOU! Without those deals, you think you’d be shit right now?!”

Everett’s face went cold. Then he smiled.

“Every case you brought me was a setup. I took any of that? I’d be the one locked up.”

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She just crumpled.

With everything falling apart, she lost the baby.

The Hartwells and Reeds? Totally destroyed. Everyone bailed. Both families went broke.

Everett’s career blew up. But he never called.

We both knew. He had too much baggage from all that. No way to fix it.

I grabbed my cut and got the hell out.

New city. New life. No marriage. No drama.

People say the best way to get over someone? Find someone else.

Guess what. They’re right.

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