Chapter 1

My boyfriend locked me in a hotel room with men to test if I was a slut.

April Fools' Day. My boyfriend sent me a hotel room number.

We'd only been together for six months. It felt too fast.

I was still figuring out how to turn him down when I opened Reddit to kill time and a trending post caught my eye.

*Apex Industries heir setting up the ultimate loyalty test on his girlfriend tonight*

I clicked in. Someone was hyping up their friend Logan, the so-called heir to Apex Industries, and his plan to test his girlfriend on April Fools'. There was a livestream link in the comments.

I scrolled down and my stomach dropped.

*lol she actually fell for it*

*imagine walking into a room full of dudes thinking it's a romantic night*

*this is cruel but I'm here for it*

*plot twist: she calls someone else to come save her lmaooo*

I blinked. So this was what an April Fools' prank looked like when someone went all out?

I smiled and forwarded the room number to Silas Thorne, the guy who'd been chasing me for years.

Sure enough, the next morning my boyfriend kicked the hotel room door open with a whole crew behind him.

He held up his phone and screamed at me while I was still half-dressed. "I knew it! You're nothing but a cheap slut! I send you a room number and you actually show up!"

"Good thing Chloe tipped me off, or I'd never have known how dirty you are!"

The woman standing next to him gave a coy little laugh. "I told you she was a gold digger. Believe me now?"

"And thank god you never told her you're the heir to Apex Industries, or she would've bled you dry!"

Heir to Apex Industries?

Silas owned Apex Industries. Since when did he have a son this old?

I was about to ask Silas what the hell was going on with this supposed son of his.

Then I remembered. He'd gone out to buy condoms.

Last night wasn't enough apparently, because he'd just gone out for more.

My phone buzzed. New comments on the thread.

*wait what happened?? the guys just ran off??*

*I work there lol. she called some dude and he beat them all up*

*bro is like 6'4 and built like a tank*

*so she's cheating... loyalty test successful I guess?*

I almost laughed.

What even were these people saying?

So Logan could scheme to destroy me and that was fine, but I wasn't allowed to protect myself?

He saw me smiling and lost it. "What are you laughing at?!"

"Where are those guys? Where did they go?!"

"If you don't talk, I'm posting the video online! Let the whole world see what a shameless whore you are!"

I rolled my eyes, then straightened my clothes and stood up nice and slow. "Those guys?"

"Logan, so you knew ahead of time there'd be more than one man in this room?"

He froze.

His eyes darted to Chloe.

Chloe frowned, and then she saw something and clapped a hand over her mouth with a shriek. "Elena! You did all this and you still need someone to spell it out for you?"

Before I could figure out what she meant, she snatched Logan's phone and started snapping photos of the nightstand next to my bed. "Look at all these condom wrappers! There's no way this was just one guy!"

"Elena, you've really been having yourself a party."

She turned to Logan with tears already forming. "Babe, you never slept with her, right?"

"I don't mean anything by it, I'm just worried about, you know, diseases. You're going to be somebody important and your health matters."

Logan glanced at the wrappers on the floor and his face went green. "Elena, have you no shame?! All these wrappers and you still won't admit it?!"

"Thank god I never brought you home to meet my dad, or you'd have dragged our whole family name through the mud!"

The people behind him got even more fired up at the mention of his family.

They all held up their phones and pointed them at me. "This is hilarious. What are you gonna say, Elena? You just like blowing them up for fun?"

"A girl like you doesn't deserve Logan!"

"Exactly. A slut like her thinks she can marry into the richest family in the country? Dream on!"

"Good thing Logan caught her before it was too late!"

Excuse me?

I finally couldn't hold it in anymore. I looked at every single one of them and said, word by word, "The richest family? You all just say it and it's true? Where do you get the nerve?"

The smug look on Logan's face went cold.

He pulled out a paternity test result and slapped it in my face. "Open your damn eyes and read! The DNA test confirms it. I'm his biological son!"

"My dad said he's coming to bring me home any day now! What do you know!"

My phone buzzed again. The thread was blowing up.

*he just pulled out a whole paternity test lmaooo*

*girl fumbled BAD*

I picked up the test and scanned it, and I froze.