PROLOGUE

I’m scarred. I have wounds inside my heart that I’ve been carrying ever since the day that I learned to recognized people…But those scars weren’t caused by enemies or people that I disliked. Those wounds came from the few persons that say they loved me…I am unwanted.

“Helene, I can’t believe you’d go this far for James,” Lexy, one of her best friends, told her then showed her the phone’s screen. “For James Osburn, you sell your nude photos?”

“Wait…what?” Helene grabbed the phone and looked at it closely. “It’s not me!” she denied. “Why would I sell my nude photos online?”

Lexy shrugged her shoulders. “Because you’re eager to earn money just to support him,” she smirked. “I shouldn’t be surprised. I should expect that you’d do this—”

“Lexy, how could you say that to me?” Helene stood and was about to walk away, but Lexy blocked her way.

“And where do you think you’re going?” Lexy asked, arching her brow. “This is you, right?”

Helene held her breath when Lexy played a video on her phone. “Lexy, please don’t do this…We’re best friends! Why are you doing this to me?”

All of her classmates gathered around them as Lexy clicked the play button. Helene tried to stop her, but she pushed her to the ground. She watched in shock when the screen flashed a pornographic video of her. The speakers roared her loud moans and groans while holding a huge sex toy pressed between her legs.

“No!” Helene stood. “That’s not me!” she shouted and ran. She pushed away the students blocking her way, but they’re all laughing at her.

“Helene, why don’t you just tell us the truth?” Adam, who just arrived, asked her. His phone was in his hand.

“No…” she said, shaking her head. Adam is her ultimate crush and the only male student that showed kindness to her. “No…”

Even Arianne was giving her a look that tells her how shameful she did. “Helene, I didn’t expect that you could do this—”

“That’s not me!” she shouted. “That’s not me! That’s just photoshopped.”

Lexy and their other classmates laughed, including Bela. She’s giving her a scrutinizing glare as if telling her that this is what she deserved for being a freak. Helene can take all the bad words that Bela and the other people around told her; what she can’t handle is Lexy’s and Arianne’s thoughts about her now. They are her only best friends…

“How will you prove to us that the woman in this video is not you?” Bela asked with a smirk. “We can clearly recognize her face, Helene. And it’s you.”

“That’s not her!” a male voice from behind her classmates shouted. “That is not her.”

Helene froze at her feet. That voice is familiar to her, but how did he know that she’s in this university. She turned slowly and met the man’s gaze. In an instant, all the people around her vanished.

This mysterious man saved her once again from this nightmare…

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