Vivian’s POV

"Who are you?" Even as Vivian asked the question again. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

She already knew exactly who the naked woman before her was... she was someone that Ryan was sleeping with. But the sick and twisted part of her that took comfort in being right, even if it hurt her, needed to have confirmation.

And so she waited, just standing there, while the other woman rolled her eyes at Vivian, like she was a lesser being. Which, given the perfection standing in front of her, Vivian probably was. From the looks of her she was probably an A-list celebrity, perhaps a supermodel or an actress.

Running her finger over her collarbone and capturing a few droplets of water on the tip of her finger, the other woman flicked the water in Vivian’s direction. Only the distance between them saving the preschool teacher from getting hit.

"My name is Gwendolyn Stuart the fourth, heiress of the Stuart family, and I am Ryan Terrell’s girlfriend, soon to be fiancé if you must know," Oh, their relationship was so far along that Ryan would be popping the question soon.

There was no hesitation in the words, proof that Gwendolyn believed her words, and said them with a confidence that left no room for argument.

The woman before Vivian was the real deal. Vivian had heard the words loud and clear, and Gwendolyn being free enough to prance around naked in the penthouse was even more evidence that the other woman was being completely honest.

Her heartbeat feeling way too loud in her ears with every breath that she took, Vivian put everything that she had into remaining upright, into not bursting into tears in front of the other woman.

She had been cheated on so many times, but it had never hurt like this.

It felt like somebody was driving a hot blade into her heart over and over again.

"Now that you know who I am, mind telling me who you are?" The woman’s haughty voice pulled Vivian out of her little pity party, forcing her to refocus despite feeling like her world was ending.

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What could she even say, was there even a way to introduce herself that would leave Vivian with even a small shred of dignity?

’I am your boyfriend, who is also your soon to be fiancé’s mistress,’

’I am his friend with benefits,’ No matter how she tried to phrase the situation, it sounded awful

if Vivian said any of those things She had no idea how the situation would go.

Would Gwendolyn Stuart the fourth laugh and think that Vivian was simply playing with her?

What if the other woman immediately started attacking Vivian, pulling out chunks of hair?

If the beautiful woman went for the second option it would be something that Vivian was very familiar with. Some of Bryce’s flings had attacked her before.

Or perhaps the woman, would make it her life’s mission to destroy Vivian. Grinding her into the dust for daring to sleep with Ryan, and making sure that Vivian never got back up again. That she was destroyed completely.

Or maybe she just would not care, maybe that was the way that she and Ryan operated in their relationship, looking at Gwendolyn though, Vivian highly doubted that.

She seemed like a jealous woman. The kind who would not take lightly to having her man look at another woman.

And so, taking all of the shame and embarrassment that she felt, Vivian pulled it around her like a cloak, and she told the woman exactly what she was feeling in that moment.

"My name is Vivian, and I am no one...I am nothing," Gwendolyn Stuart the fourth, made a sound that would have been a snort if it had not come out sounding so dignified.

"How refreshing, Ryan has managed to hire somebody who knows their place, it is always lovely when the help knows exactly what they are," Having not expected such cutting words, Vivian gasped, involuntarily taking a step back when the woman’s green eyes hardened, looking like shards ready to pierce her.

"As much as I like you knowing your place, Vivian, as the soon to be future Mrs Terrell,

I do not appreciate you showing up in the middle of the night. But since you are already here," Gwendolyn took deliberate steps towards Vivian and came to a stop right in front of her, then she spun, her wet hair instantly spraying Vivian with droplets of water.

She was too stunned to even scream.

"Be sure to clean everything up, I am going up to the roof to moon bathe," Still as naked as she had been, when she’d come out of the bathroom, Gwendolyn Stuart the fourth left Vivian where she stood. Probably going to moon bathe on the roof as she had said. Vivian had never heard anybody say they were going to do such a thing, but it sounded exactly like something that a woman like Gwendolyn would do.

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Despite Gwendolyn Stuart the fourth’s assumption, Vivian was not Ryan’s housekeeper and even though she’d called herself that in pain, she was not nothing.

She was somebody, she was Vivian Rose, a preschool teacher and Amy’s best friend. Staring at the door that Gwendolyn had just left through, Vivian wanted to go after her, to grab that thick brunette hair and just that shaking Gwendolyn.

’Do not treat me like trash!’ She wanted to shout at the other woman, but she felt so hollow, how could she have been so stupid. How in the world had she not seen this coming?

Looking around the room that she had spent so much time in with Ryan, the very room that she had just been told to clean, Vivian turned on her heel and left. As she walked out the door, she pulled out her phone and began dialing Ryan’s number.

She needed to know if the man would at least tell her the truth. Whether he told it to her or not, Vivian had no idea what she would do afterwards.