Who is the fat girl beside you?”

Sophia’s voice was sweet on the surface, but the hateful gaze she fixed on me was anything but. She had walked up to us at the old oak tree with confident steps, her long dark hair swaying. She was slim and elegant, the kind of girl who turned heads without trying. And right now, her eyes were shooting daggers straight at me.

Lucian tensed beside me, his arm still around my waist. “Sophia, this is Lily. My… girlfriend.”

The word made my heart flutter, but Sophia’s expression turned icy. “Girlfriend?” She laughed lightly, though there was no humor in it. “Since when do...