Chapter 27: Apologies

Ivy's POV

“You don’t deserve to say the word ‘friendship,’” I tell Veronica, enunciating each word carefully.

Once upon a time, when I was young and naive, I’d given my heart to Veronica with a purity and passion she’d never deserved. I really thought we were close when we were kids. I’d believed foolishly that we would be friends forever. But she betrayed me in the most brutal way possible.

“I’m sorry. I won’t mention it again,” Veronica apologizes quickly, looking away.

Her desperate expression, surprisingly, doesn’t seem the slightest bit fake. And seeing my refusal to comply with her wishes seems to have her on the verge of breaking down.

Good.

I want to see her suffer.

I want to see her suffer before I kill her.

“I promise, I have no intention of hurting you,” Veronica adds. “I swear I don’t have any ulterior motives here. I’m not… what Erick and I did to you–I–I just–can we talk? That’s it. I just want to talk.”

I don’t understand what we could possibly have to talk about