Chapter 11: Untouchable
I stared at my reflection in the mirror, the woman in front of me unrecognizable. The softness I once had, the girl who believed in his lies, was gone. What stood there now was something stronger, something colder. Someone who had learned. Learned to fight. Learned to rise.
“You hear me, Lukas?” I whispered, my voice sharp like a blade. “I don‘ t love you. And I won‘ t ever forgive you.”
There was no pain in my chest, no tears in my eyes–just this overwhelming
satisfaction. I was done. Done with him, done with his games, and now I was free. Free to rise. Free to build.
And rise I did.
My career? It was mine now. I had pushed past every obstacle he’d thrown in my way. The promotion wasn‘ t just because of my work–it was because I finally had a
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voice that people listened to. I wasn‘ t just the girl in the background anymore. I was the one who had ideas, who made things happen. My team looked to me. I made the decisions. I owned every moment of it. Every word of praise they threw my way made Lukas’s fall feel that much sweeter. I was thriving, and he was… nothing. A shadow of who he used to be.
But as much as I thrived, there was still that sick feeling whenever I thought about him. The nerve of him, trying to crawl back. After everything.
The texts started. Relentless. Begging. Pleading. I could feel the suffocation in every word.
“Ayla, I’ll do anything. I’ll give it all up. Come back to me.
“I miss you. Please. Just talk to me.”
“I regret everything. I want to fix it. Please. forgive me.”
The roses. The flowers. The lies wrapped in
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pretty petals. I couldn’t even look at them. I wasn’t that naive girl anymore. I wasn’t falling for his game again.
I slammed my laptop shut, rage flooding me, making my heart beat like a drum in my chest. How dare he? How dare he think he could just fix everything with flowers and apologies? After everything he’d done
to me?
I sent him one last message, short and sharp, cutting through his bullshit.
“You don’t get to beg now, Lukas. Not when you destroyed everything. You remember me now that you’ve lost everything. Too bad. You‘ re too late. Don’t contact me again.”
And that should‘ ve been it. But of course, it wasn’t.
Lukas showed up at my mother’s house. Begging her for forgiveness, too. My mother slapped him. Yelled at him. Told. him he was nothing but a coward. And the
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worst part? He just took it. He didn’t fight back. The man who had once thought the world owed him everything was nothing now. A broken fool begging for scraps.
But me? I was unstoppable now. I had everything I needed. I was stronger than I’d ever been. And Lukas? He could rot in his own mess.
But there was a thought, something dark and twisted that crawled into my mind, something that made me feel like I was going to choke. What if… what if there was a piece of him still inside of me? What if I was pregnant?
I shook off the thought, my stomach twisting. No. I couldn’t let that happen. If it came to that… I would end it. No second. thoughts. No hesitation. I would never carry a piece of him. Not in me. Not ever.
Lukas had ruined me. Ruined us. But I had clawed my way out. I was stronger than him. I was better than him. And now? Now, I’d make sure he saw it. He‘ d watch me
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rise. Watch me thrive. And he would rot in his regrets.
As for me? I was free. Free to be who I was
meant to be. Untouchable.
And that, Lukas, was the greatest betrayal of all.