Chapter 1

A girl I’d never met dropped to her knees in front of everyone, begging me to give her my boyfriend.

“I really love him. I can’t live without him. Please, will you give him back to me?”

“Is this your ex?”

“No. Lady, who are you?”

My boyfriend looked completely bewildered.

I believed they didn’t know each other and assumed she was mentally unwell.

But later, I saw him holding her in his arms, begging her to forgive him.

I stepped out of the fitting room, and a pretty young woman suddenly rushed over and knelt in front of me.

“Please, give Ethan Bennett back to me. I’m begging you.”

“You two won’t end up happy together. Ethan and I are meant to be.”

“Please. Please.”

She knelt at my feet, tears streaming down her face. She looked so pitiful.

If she hadn’t been trying to steal my boyfriend, I might have felt sorry for her.

Noticing she’d said “give him back” rather than “let me have him,” I raised an eyebrow at Ethan, who looked just as confused as I was. “Your ex?”

The girl tipped her face up toward him and cried, “Ethan!”

Ethan hurried to my side, anxiously explaining that he had no idea who this woman was.

“Lady, who are you?”

His cold response seemed to hurt her even more. She stared miserably at his right arm around me and whispered, “How could you forget me?”

She’d caused enough of a scene that a crowd had gathered outside the store.

“What’s going on? Is the girlfriend kneeling in front of the side chick?”

“Maybe not. The one standing looks more like the real girlfriend to me.”

“From what that girl’s saying, maybe he lost his memory, forgot her, and started dating someone else?”

In a few short minutes, they’d dreamed up enough drama to fill a dozen soap operas.

“Security! There’s a crazy woman here. Get her out.”

Ethan called the guards over and watched the struggling girl with undisguised disgust.

“Ethan! You’ll regret treating me this way!”

The guards hauled her to her feet. As they led her away, she turned and gave Ethan one last, despairing look.

Ethan rolled his eyes so hard I thought they might get stuck. “What is wrong with her?”

“Babe, did she scare you? You have to believe me. I really don’t know that lunatic.”

He tugged at me, looking wounded. Normally, I found him adorable when he acted like this. I could never resist stroking his hair.

This time, I knocked his hand away and said petulantly, “If I’d known one of your admirers would be here, I wouldn’t have come.”

Realizing I was genuinely upset, Ethan immediately called his assistant.

“Pull today’s mall security footage. Find out which psychiatric hospital that woman who knelt in front of Vivi escaped from.”

The mall belonged to the Bennett family. Getting the footage would be easy, and with their connections, looking into one girl wouldn’t be difficult either.

I was curious myself. What exactly was her connection to Ethan?

Whether he’d been fooling around or still had feelings for an ex, the moment I had proof, I’d dump him and call off the engagement.

I, Vivian Parker, was allergic to unfaithful men.