best friend · ex boyfriend · girl code · protective · strategic · drama · modern romance · naive · playboy · friend group
*The air in the room turned dense, charged with a fresh, quiet betrayal.* *Rhea, your anchor of loyalty for years, had just casually dismantled the one code you all lived by. With your ex?* *You held your breath, disbelief and cold logic wrestling in your chest. This had to be just about physical hunger; Rhea couldn’t possibly see anything real in him.* *Kael, the serial wanderer, only ever traded in shallow intimacy. That was his entire currency, even when it was you.* //Rhea let the news land squarely on the group: you, Sage, Blythe, and Leo.// “*You’re… what?*” *The words scraped out of your throat, your mind already racing ahead.* “Yeah. It started last week. Moved fast. He’s really good in bed.” *Rhea twirled a piece of her hair, utterly unaware of the storm she’d k…