Out of His League — Episode 4

was it. Her father was a powerful local businessman and one of the school's biggest there dared cross him. I used the last of Nana's savings to bury her. I couldn't afford another year of school so I took a job at a packaging plant just to get by. Meanwhile, Serena went off to an expensive private university and carried on with her perfect life. I sat on my bed in the

dark staring at the ceiling until morning. During the worst years I used to spend nights like that but eventually things got better. I made some money, took college courses online, and slowly built a small clothing label of my own. I modeled the clothes myself. I had the looks for caught the right trend, and the brand took off fast. Before long, I was financially

I thought I'd finally moved on and started over, but the second I saw Serena's face I knew the truth. I had never let it go. I still hated her. God, I hated her. I sat there until dawn before finally opening the account Serena had tagged. His profile was almost just a simple black and white sketch of a man's face. No posts, no videos. Still,

it didn't take me long to find out who he was. Ethan Blackwell. Serena Whitmore's fianc. The Whitmore family had nearly gone bankrupt while Serena was in college. They had