#Chapter 57: Bad News

Ella POV My phone buzzed, and I glanced at the screen. It was another direct message from a young woman I had never met, someone whose name I didn’t recognize. Her profile picture showed a pretty blonde, smiling in a way that made me feel uneasy. I didn’t have to read the message to know what it would say. Are you dating Alexander Black? You should dump him. He’s bad news. You can’t trust him! You have no idea what he’s really like. Please believe me—I don’t want him to do to you what he did to me. It was the sixth message like this I had received in the last two days. Nadia had only been the first. More women, each with their own warnings, seemed to be coming out of the shadows to "protect" me from Alexander. I had to admit that it bothered me, even though I had known it would happen. “You’ve gotten popular lately,” Elizabeth said, glancing at my phone as it buzzed again. “It just keeps going off.” I smiled apologetically. “I should just sile