Chapter 1
I pocketed the eight in one swift motion.
“Wow! You’re amazing, baby. I didn’t know you were this good at pool,” Jacob complimented me.
Suddenly, his stomach began to ache, and he excused himself to go to the bathroom.
Naturally, I continued practicing. Ever since I’d started working, I barely had any time to play and had become slightly rusty.
All of a sudden, a group of women approached my pool table.
I looked up at them. The girls had multi-colored hair and numbered badges pinned to their shirts. They all looked at me with contempt.
“I don’t need a teaching assistant, thank you.”
I had just finished talking when the leader of the group snatched my cue stick from me and threw it on the floor.
My heart ached as it hit the ground. That was a brand-new cue stick that cost me tens of thousands of dollars.
“How dare you try and steal my man? Are you trying to be sneaky?” the woman barked.
Her man? Was she referring to Jacob?
“I think there’s been some kind of misunderstanding. Jacob is my—”
I didn’t get to finish my sentence before the assistants surrounded me and started beating me up. I wanted to fight back, but I was outnumbered.
A redhead wearing a badge labelled with the number nine yanked on my hair. Then, she slapped me across the face twice. “What a homewrecker! Don’t you know that Jacob is Queenie’s boyfriend? They’re literally going to get married soon!”
Married? But Jacob had just proposed to me a while back. Why was she claiming that he was her fiancé?
The women forcefully dragged me to the other side of the room as the others continued yelling at me.
I looked toward a random pool player with a pleading look.
Upon noticing my silent cry for help, he was about to walk over and ask about the situation when the other girls began to berate him too.
“What do you want?” one of them snapped. “She’s a homewrecker. We’re just trying to teach her a lesson! Are you on her side?”
“She’s not a victim—she’s the perpetrator!” yelled another.
“Women who try to get involved with someone else’s boyfriend should go to hell! There’s nothing wrong with giving her the punishment she deserves!”
