Lucy turned around as she dried her hair with a towel. Yanni grabbed her wrist and turned her around. He forced her to look at him.
"Were you jealous of Guin?"
"Nope. I told you; I'm not Sam."
Yanni ignored her; he looked at her in a semi-drunken state. He said, "Tell me, why did you come back? If you do not want to see me, nor do you want to be with me, why did you come back to North City?"
Lucy could not give him a reasonable response. She did not have any family in North City. If she did not want to see Yanni, she would not have gone back there.
Lucy closed her eyes and pushed Yanni away. She said, "Yanni, let me go. We are not compatible, and Guin suits you. I can see something between you two. Why won't you let me go?"
Yanni snickered. "How do you know there's something between Guin and me?"
Lucy had no answer to his question.
"Was it because she sent me home? Or that my arms were around her? Or that she left a kiss on my shirt—did that make you think that something is going on? Perhaps we even slept together?"
Lucy took a deep breath; she shuddered. "All these have nothing to do with me. That's your choice."
Choice? She had trapped him, and then she told him that he was free?
"So you wouldn't mind if I slept with other women?"
Lucy could not look him in the eye. She looked out of the window into the night and said, "Yes. I wouldn't mind because we broke up a long time ago."
"I did not agree to a breakup."
Lucy trembled. The house was warm, and yet she felt extremely cold. "It only takes one person to break up a relationship. Furthermore, we've never even started."
She only pretended to be her sister. It was all a show; it was like a beautiful, fragile dream—no matter how well you protect it, it would shatter the moment you wake up.
Yanni loosened his tie and unbuttoned his cuffs as he looked at Lucy with anger and reluctance. His bloodshot eyes glared at her.
Then he pinned her to the window and kissed her aggressively.
Lucy's shoulder and back slammed into the window; it was painful. Her mouth was filled with a mixture of him and alcohol. She struggled to push him away as he was too strong.
"Yanni, this is rape—"
"This relationship ends when I say it ends! I did not agree to a breakup!"
Lucy was in pain, so she cried. She tried to hit him. "I'm not Sam! The woman you love is not me! I beg you, let me go! Yanni! I'm not Sam!"
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