CHAPTER 27 Rose

  Alyssa's POV

  "I can't believe the audacity of that girl!" I said with complaint as I hurled myself into the back of the familiar black car "Straight up lying to my face!"

  Luckily it hadn't taken Charlie long to respond to my message of coming round to pick me up from the coffee shop. I was done with Haley, I was only beginning to grow more frustrated with the filthy lies coming from her lips.

  I had lost all respect for Haley now, even pretending to think Derek and I had postponed the wedding. It made the bile rise in my throat.

  "Why are people so shit Charlie?" I asked, my eyes set on the view from the black tinted windows as he pulled the car from the curb to the road "I don't deserve friends like that,"

  "It's just the way of the world Miss," Charlie replied, his voice shaky as he spoke "But the bad is always balanced with the good, I'm a believer in the universe being balanced, you know,"