My Best Friend Stole My Boyfriend… Here’s What Happened
The notification lit up at 2:17 AM. I wasn't supposed to see it. Jake's phone was face-up on the counter, and I'd only gone to the kitchen for a glass of water. Bare feet on cold tile. Half-asleep. Just a girl in an oversized t-shirt, thirsty at two in the morning. And then four words changed everything. "Can't wait to see you." Her name sat right below it, glowing like a confession. Lila. I stood there so long the screen went dark. And when it did, I saw my own reflection staring back at me in the black glass. Wide eyes. Parted lips. A woman who had just felt the floor disappear beneath her feet. I put down my water glass. I went back to bed. And I lay there in the dark, next to the man I loved, listening to him breathe like he didn't have a single thing to hide. That was the night everything changed. I just didn't know it yet. Let me take you back. Because this story doesn't start with a text message. It doesn't start with betra...