Betrayed by him, I finally decided to leave

It was sharp eight in the morning when my phone rang with Xavier’s friend group calling me strangely. As soon as I picked up, a strange mocking laughter filled the background.

“Shut up! She has picked up already!” I ignored the words as a hush fell in the background.

“Aria, well we called to apologise for that day, we realised that our joke went too far, you will not hold it against us will you?

Now that the misunderstandings have been cleared up, how about you hurry up to Hotel Marionette on the beachside, where we are hosting Xavier’s bachelorette party.”

They did not let me speak at all and just like that the phone was hung up.

An hour passed and here I was, standing in front of the Marionette Hotel’s room to end it all for good.

The waitress working at the front looked at me with a fake smile and. I instantly felt something was off.

“Miss Aria Valarie right? Ah, your friends said that they have planned a great surprise that you will never forget in your life, please go on the second floor..”

“Okay.” Walking upstairs as soon as I pushed the giant door a little, my heart completely froze in horror as I watched the scene through the small crack.

The entire hall was decorated with framed photos of babies with thousands of small toys and balloons of pink and blue colour.

It was a gender reveal party with Julia and Alexander standing in the middle surrounded by Xavier’s friends and as they were in the middle of cutting an exquisitely dressed cake.

I almost lost my balance as I heard the next words leaving Julia’s mouth.

“Thankyou so much for coming to my baby’s gender reveal party! Xavier and I are going to be parents soon.

But! Is it a baby girl or a boy?! Everyone take a guess.”

“Boy!”

“No, a baby girl would be good! I will absolutely adore my daughter.”

At that moment my fists clenched hard as I simply stared at my boyfriend of ten years celebrating the beginning of a new life as he left me behind giving me untreatable scars.

Once he had said the same words of wanting a daughter that would look like me and now her was ready to not only throw me away but also forget me like I was a nonexistent pest.

The cake was soon cut and a blueberry chocolate filling came out making the hooting louder yet I could see a small disappointment flash across Xavier’s face for a moment before it was gone.

“Xavier! You are going to be the father of a son! Congratulations man!” James congratulated the two before his eyes darted around looking at the guests to find me absent.

“Aria did not came. What would that witch take to leave Xavier.” He gritted his teeth to which another female interjected.

“She is like a fucking vampire trying to extract the last drop of value from Xavier. He got lucky to have Julia or she would have bled him dry. After Xavier is married tomorrow we will show that woman her proper place.”

So this was what it was all about.

With that in my mind I turned around with a small smile on my face.

Just like they have given me a great gift, how could I not want to repay them.

I called Xavier’s group chat with a false happy tone.

“Aria we organised a party for you but where are you-”

“You did? What a coincidence, I organised a party too.

I am on the first floor with Xavier’s top investors as my guests, they are almost here so hurry up with Xavier. You don’t want to make them unhappy do you?”

A deafening silence engulfed the group of friends as they looked at one another in horror as they realised the meaning of my words.

“Aria…you, we cannot, Xavier is so busy-” James who was a part of the call had a scared look on her face as I laughed heartily.

“Then do you want me to tell the investors the same thing? Bring him here. NOW.”

Xavier who was at the background heard the commotion and realised his friend’s had planned to bring me here to break it off to me that I and Xavier were done and his eyes glared daggers at them as if he could not wait to skin them alive.

“Tell Aria we are coming.” Xavier said his eyes glaring at all the people present while Julia clenched her fists hard.

Not only the gender reveal party was completely stopped for now but it would be almost deemed as spoiled.

And just like that, at the end she was still the hidden mistress.