My boyfriend locked me in a hotel room with men to test if I was a slut. April Fools' Day. My boyfriend sent me a hotel room number. We'd only been together for six months. It felt too fast. I was still figuring out how to turn him down when I opened Reddit to kill time and a trending post caught my eye. *Apex Industries heir setting up the ultimate loyalty test on his girlfriend tonight* I clicked in. Someone was hyping up their friend Logan, the so-called heir to Apex Industries, and his plan to test his girlfriend on April Fools'. There was a livestream link in the comments. I scrolled down and my stomach dropped. *lol she actually fell for it* *imagine walking into a room full of dudes thinking it's a romantic night* *this is cruel but I'm here for it* *plot twist: she calls someone else to come save her lmaooo* I blinked. So this was what an April Fools' prank looked like when someone went all out? I smiled and forwarded the room number to Silas Thorne, the guy who'd been chasing me for years. Sure enough, the next morning my boyfriend kicked the hotel room door open with a whole crew behind him. He held up his phone and screamed at me while I was still half-dressed. "I knew it! You're nothing but a cheap slut! I send you a room number and you actually show up!" "Good thing Chloe tipped me off, or I'd never have known how dirty you are!" The woman standing next to him gave a coy little laugh. "I told you she was a gold digger. Believe me now?" "And thank god you never told her you're the heir to Apex Industries, or she would've bled you dry!" Heir to Apex Industries? Silas owned Apex Industries. Since when did he have a son this old? I was about to ask Silas what the hell was going on with this supposed son of his. Then I remembered. He'd gone out to buy condoms. Last night wasn't enough apparently, because he'd just gone out for more. My phone buzzed. New comments on the thread. *wait what happened?? the guys just ran off??* *I work there lol. she called some dude and he beat them all up* *bro is like 6'4 and built like a tank* *so she's cheating... loyalty test successful I guess?* I almost laughed. What even were these people saying? So Logan could scheme to destroy me and that was fine, but I wasn't allowed to protect myself? He saw me smiling and lost it. "What are you laughing at?!" "Where are those guys? Where did they go?!" "If you don't talk, I'm posting the video online! Let the whole world see what a shameless whore you are!" I rolled my eyes, then straightened my clothes and stood up nice and slow. "Those guys?" "Logan, so you knew ahead of time there'd be more than one man in this room?" He froze. His eyes darted to Chloe. Chloe frowned, and then she saw something and clapped a hand over her mouth with a shriek. "Elena! You did all this and you still need someone to spell it out for you?" Before I could figure out what she meant, she snatched Logan's phone and started snapping photos of the nightstand next to my bed. "Look at all these condom wrappers! There's no way this was just one guy!" "Elena, you've really been having yourself a party." She turned to Logan with tears already forming. "Babe, you never slept with her, right?" "I don't mean anything by it, I'm just worried about, you know, diseases. You're going to be somebody important and your health matters." Logan glanced at the wrappers on the floor and his face went green. "Elena, have you no shame?! All these wrappers and you still won't admit it?!" "Thank god I never brought you home to meet my dad, or you'd have dragged our whole family name through the mud!" The people behind him got even more fired up at the mention of his family. They all held up their phones and pointed them at me. "This is hilarious. What are you gonna say, Elena? You just like blowing them up for fun?" "A girl like you doesn't deserve Logan!" "Exactly. A slut like her thinks she can marry into the richest family in the country? Dream on!" "Good thing Logan caught her before it was too late!" Excuse me? I finally couldn't hold it in anymore. I looked at every single one of them and said, word by word, "The richest family? You all just say it and it's true? Where do you get the nerve?" The smug look on Logan's face went cold. He pulled out a paternity test result and slapped it in my face. "Open your damn eyes and read! The DNA test confirms it. I'm his biological son!" "My dad said he's coming to bring me home any day now! What do you know!" My phone buzzed again. The thread was blowing up. *he just pulled out a whole paternity test lmaooo* *girl fumbled BAD* I picked up the test and scanned it, and I froze.
The names on the test were Logan Sterling and Arthur Reeves. Arthur Reeves, if I remembered right, was the old butler at Silas's estate. Silas lost both his parents when he was little. His aunt raised him. Because he missed them, he never let go of anyone who'd worked for his parents. The old butler, even the nanny. He kept every single one. Did Logan actually think Arthur Reeves owned Apex Industries? Since I hadn't walked into the trap they'd set, since I hadn't been assaulted by those thugs and left broken, everything after that had gone off the rails. And the people commenting on that thread didn't seem to know the actual relationships between any of us. Still, I had to thank whoever posted it. If it weren't for that thread, I'd never have known Logan was a piece of shit. When I didn't say anything, Chloe got even more pleased with herself. She checked her phone and grinned. "The livestream just hit a hundred thousand viewers, babe! We're going viral!" "Everyone's saying you're a genius for exposing a gold digger!" "The comments are saying that many wrappers means at least five guys!" "Ew, Logan, is it just me or does the air in here suddenly smell rotten?" I glanced at the phone in Chloe's hand. The comments section was filthy. I refreshed the Reddit thread on my phone. More comments rolling in. *that many wrappers??? girl was BUSY* *wait so she cheated on him with some other guy?* *lol she belongs to the streets* *honestly both of them are trash for this* Both of them? I was trash for protecting myself? Chloe was the one who introduced me to Logan in the first place. I met Chloe during my internship at my dad's company. I knew her family didn't have much, so I looked out for her. We got close over time. When she found out I was single, she brought Logan to meet me without a second thought. After a few dinners, he started pursuing me and I thought he was fun, so I said yes. And now somehow in their minds I was the villain? Were these people even paying attention to the same reality I was living in? I snapped back to the moment and looked at Logan with a cold smile. "A few condom wrappers and you're already losing it?" "Not my fault you can't keep up." "Logan, since you were willing to set me up for Chloe's sake, we're done." "We're breaking up." Logan didn't expect me to be the one saying it. His face flushed red in an instant. "Elena! Have you lost your mind?!" Chloe threw herself into his arms. "See, babe? She's basically admitting it!" "This is all my fault. I never should have introduced you two." Logan didn't push her away. He patted her on the back to comfort her. "She's the dirty one. That has nothing to do with you." He turned to look at me, his eyes full of disgust. "Chloe's right. Thank god she doesn't know I'm the Apex heir, or she'd have wormed her way into the family and I'd be the one humiliated!" "You want to break up? Fine! Once my dad takes me back, she'll be crawling on her knees begging me to take her back!" So it was true. When you're stunned beyond words, you really do just laugh. I smiled, stood up and rolled my wrist, and slapped Logan across the face. The crack echoed through the room. He stood there in total shock, holding his cheek and staring at me. "You! You're the one who cheated! And you have the nerve to hit me?!" I smiled. "I hit you because I want to. Do I need to book an appointment?" Then I threw the paternity test back at him. "Logan, the owner of Apex Industries is a Thorne, not a Reeves."
They all froze when they heard me. But Chloe recovered fast. She doubled over laughing, clutching her stomach. "Elena, are you seriously this jealous?" "Logan already showed you the DNA test and you're still making excuses?" "The owner of Apex Industries is a Thorne, not a Reeves? That's hilarious. Who do you think you are? You think you know more about his family than he does?" Logan snapped out of it too. He smirked and pulled a set of car keys from his pocket, dangling them in front of my face. "See these? My dad gave them to me." "Every car registered under his name, I can drive whenever I want." "Rolls-Royce. You probably won't sit in one your whole life." "And he told me once I come home, shares in the company are mine too. If that's not the heir to Apex Industries, what is?" He was getting more and more worked up, like he could already see himself inheriting it all. But did Arthur Reeves actually say all that? He was just a butler. Where did he get the nerve? Chloe chimed in with her sugary little voice. "Elena, it's too late to regret it now." "Logan is going to inherit an entire empire. Why would he ever want a girl who can't even respect herself?" The people behind them with their phones out started piling on. "Elena's so salty right now, it's pathetic." "Can't have him so she starts making stuff up. What a joke." "Logan just flashed a Rolls-Royce key and she's still talking back!" I rolled my eyes internally. Thank god I'd listened to my dad and kept my family's money a secret. Otherwise a nobody like Logan would've thought he'd hit the jackpot and treated me even worse. Whatever. Not worth thinking about. I took a deep breath. I was done arguing with these people. "Logan, since you're so sure you're the Apex heir, I'll be here waiting to watch you eat those words." "We're broken up. If you've got nothing else, get out." Logan stepped forward and grabbed me by the collar. "What did you just say?!" "You still want to run that mouth?!" He was strong. I stumbled from the force of it. Chloe rushed over and shoved me. "Elena, how dare you talk to Logan like that?" She shoved me again as she said it. I staggered back two steps and my shoulder slammed into the bedpost. It hurt. "What the hell are you doing?!" I snapped. Before I could even touch her, she let out a shriek and threw herself backward. She dropped to the floor and grabbed her knee, sobbing. "I was just trying to calm you down! How could you push me?" Logan rushed over and helped her up. "Chloe, are you okay?" She shook her head, eyes brimming with tears. "I'm fine. I'd rather it be me than you getting hurt." Logan looked like his heart was breaking. He whipped around to face me, eyes burning. "Elena! Get on your knees!" "Apologize to Chloe!" I almost laughed from the sheer audacity. "Why should I?!" "Why?" Logan sneered. "Because I'm the Apex heir!" "Because you slapped me and pushed Chloe!" "Now get on your knees and apologize!" Right then, the door handle turned. Silas? I looked toward the door, and hope surged through me. But before I could react, a figure walked in. "I'd like to see who has the balls to cause trouble in my hotel!"
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