BEFORE YOU READ (i should've mentioned this wayyy when i published this book): but this book includes cheating (not between eren and the reader), toxic relationships, & lots of angst stuff towards the end

10/10/21 - if u hadn't noticed i unpublished this book because i am doing some editing. not on the entire book, just some parts and adding a chapter and such to make it more sense. i changed levi's fiancée to someone else instead of petra, hope you guys will be satisfied with that 🤞

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EREN YEAGER
AGE : 19
RANDOM FACT : THE SEXIEST
MAN ALIVE

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↬ YOU WERE STARING AT YOURSELF IN THE MIRROR ATTACHED TO YOUR VANITY FOR QUITE SOME TIME. music was playing from your radio in a low volume, candles that had your favorite scent was lit in your room and the sun was slowly setting down by the horizon.

there was a knock on your door, and your eyes lifted away from the mirror and at the door of your room. you allowed the person to enter, and immediately after, the door opened.

a tall male with short blond hair and hazel eyes stepped into the room, shutting the door behind him. his sharp gaze was on you, and you just examined his defined facial structure like you always did when you saw him.

"reiner," you spoke after a moment of silence, you turned your head back around and watched him through the mirror, as he went to sit himself down on a couch displayed in your room. "here to tell me not to act all lovey-dovey with you at the party tonight?"

reiner didn't answer for a moment, instead he just kept his intense gaze on you. you shifted your eyes away from reiner's, and began to brush your hair with a comb laying on top of the vanity.

"you should talk reiner," you began with a stern tone as you were brushing your hair, keeping your eyes on the male who was now looking down at the floor of your bedroom. "if you have nothing to talk about with me, then leave the room."

"historia will be at the party," reiner answered, and you just nodded, waiting for more information on why reiner was telling you such thing. "i don't want you to do anything stupid when she's around me, and don't act like a fiancée to me when she's there."

"i never planned to anyway," you huffed, placing the comb back down right it was originally from and turned around to face him. thus, his eyes lifted from the ground to meet yours. "is that all you have to say to me about?"

"most likely yes, because some things don't get straight into your head," reiner commented, earning a furious glare from you. but he turned away from you and stood up, "i'll be leaving before you, see you later."

you watched as he left the room, you rolled your eyes and continued to get ready for the party event that was held that night. reiner's attitude and insults towards you have been increasing lately, ever since he met a woman named historia reiss.

he was head over heels for her, though it was obvious that she wasn't. in fact, she probably didn't even know about reiner's so called love for her, because she already knew you and him were engaged.

you couldn't hate historia though, and it was true, she was definitely a goddess. she was always kind to others, having a bright smile on her face and always making others laugh. historia was an absolute gorgeous woman, and sometimes you couldn't believe that she would talk to you. to be honest, you could've fallen in love with her too if it wasn't for reiner.

reiner braun, your fiancé for nearly two years now. you both got engaged when you were just 17 years old, and were arranged to get married once you both were 20. you were 19 at the moment, so in a year, you would get married to reiner.

at first, you wanted to marry reiner but he sure didn't want to marry you. besides, your pathetic father arranged the marriage with his father, so reiner couldn't do anything about it. they were both business partners, and wanted their kids to get married to own a even bigger business.

you developed a huge crush on reiner when you were 15, that was when you first met him. you instantly became friends with him, though it was awkward at first. reiner was always nice to you and always gave you gifts, which made you fall for him deeply.

but you didn't know that he was madly in love with another girl at that time, in which was historia. and when you both got the announcement that you were engaged and were ought to be married at age 20, reiner completely freaked out and that was when he started being cruel to you.

you didn't know why, but the nice things he did to you and all of the wonderful gifts soon stopped coming the day you were engaged. you consider breaking off the engagement but your father wouldn't let you and would always kick you out of his office, change the subject or completely ignore you.

you absolutely hated yourself for still having such feelings for a man who loved someone else and didn't even want to marry you. every day, you tried your best to act like you didn't care about reiner and the marriage, and allowed him to do whatever he wanted. but that was a lie, deep down you wished he would forget about historia and fall in love with you instead.

but that would never be the case.

JEAN                   SASHA              CONNIE
KIRSTEIN    BLOUSE           SPRINGER
AGE : 19             AGE : 19            AGE : 19
RANDOM FACT : THEY ARE
YOUR BEST FRIENDS

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you had already finished preparing yourself for the party. the clock read 7:30 and your ride would arrive in less than ten minutes. for another few moments, you were staring at yourself in the mirror.

you wore a tight black dress that reached to the middle of your thighs, with a fluffy colored creamed jacket resting on your shoulders and tall black high heels wrapped around your feet. your hair was up and styled appealingly, and there was light makeup layering over your face.

another knock on your door, which indicated that your ride had arrived and it was time for you to leave. you reached out for a small black handbag that had your phone and other personal items inside and quickly left the room with a couple of maids who had been waiting outside of your room.

they led you to the car, which had been a limousine that your dad sent you to pick you up. a body guard opened the door for you to enter, and after thanking the body guard, you entered the vehicle and sat in the very corner of the limousine.

the limousine soon drove off down your long driveway, and onto the road to the location of wherever the party was held. you didn't know much about the party yourself, though you did know that it would be held by some other young business man named porco galliard.

and soon enough, you arrived at the place. in front of you stood a banquet hall that was located somewhere in the city. you exited the vehicle and began to walk up the steps that led to the building.

there were others entering the place as well, some were standing outside chatting and sitting on the stairs with their friends. most eyes were on you as you walked by up the stairs, and you truly hated the amount of attention because you felt judged for the way you dressed.

once you arrived at the entrance of the building, you entered through the wide and enormous doors that led you inside. there were mostly guest in there, all drinking expensive wine and talking about their lives and job events.

"(y/n)!" you heard a female's voice call out to you, and you turned your head towards the direction of the voice and saw a girl with brown hair rushing towards you with two other males behind.

"sasha!" you called out back, opening your arms and your friend sasha immediately fell into your arms, hugging you tightly. "sorry for arriving a little late, i hope you all weren't too bored without me."

"yeah we were so bored actually," your friend, connie, said quite sarcastically as he slid his hands into his pockets and looked away with a slight scornful expression.

"yeah we actually missed you, it's been a whole week since we last saw you," your other friend, jean, spoke a moment later before you and sasha stopped hugging one another. "how is it with that stupid fiancé of yours?"

"the same as always," you answered with a weak grin, but not wanting to ruin the mood you quickly changed the subject, "now let's all go get some snacks or something?! i've been saving my stomach for some and i'm starving!"

they all agreed with you and followed you back to the tables where variety of desserts were displayed for guest to eat. and throughout all of the chatting with your friends, you didn't seem to notice the attention from a gentleman from across the room.

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connie was completely drunk after jean had dared him to take as many shots within 10 seconds, and sasha was stuffing herself with as much desserts as she can. she started crying hard when she munched on a piece of lobster and jean had to carry her away since she was catching attention from nearly everyone near her and connie ended up following them in his drunk state.

now you were completely alone, you wanted to follow right after them but other guest had stopped to chat with you. conversations with those other wealthy guest was mostly about your marriage plans with reiner, your father's business and about your life.

you hated talking to them, but did your best to answer ladylike to their questions before they walked off to speak to somebody else. you ended up talking to the guest for quite some time before they fled, jean and the others hadn't return yet but you decided to patiently wait.

you walked back to where the table of desserts were and picked up a glass of wine for yourself. your eyes began to wander around the large hall before landing on reiner, who was chatting with historia far across from you.

reiner was chatting sweetly with historia, a glass of wine in his hand while the other was awkwardly scratching the back of his neck. his cheeks were in the color of pink and historia was smiling up at him while listening to him babble about whatever he could talk about.

your eyes were kept on them for a short while but you decided to look away since you didn't want to see anymore of their interaction at the party. you proceeded to sip on your wine, when you noticed a male approach beside of you to take a wine for himself.

"lovely party isn't it, miss?" he spoke softly, you didn't know if he was talking to you at first, but when you lifted your eyes up at him, his eyes were directly looking into yours.

"oh— yeah, sort of," you answered dryly, and cleared your throat. soon enough, your cheeks began to heat up when you quickly observed his features.

the male was insanely attractive, he was averagely tall and had a defined muscular build with a reasonably long, rounded face. he had enticing blue green eyes and long brown hair that nearly reached his shoulders. he was dressed up appropriately in black, he was absolutely perfect.

"the name is eren yeager," the male introduced himself after he had taken a quick sip of his wine, his eyes still gazing right into yours. "and i know your (y/n) (l/n), reiner braun's fiancée."

"yeah, i am," you sighed softly, but gave him a small warm smile. you didn't know how he knew about you, but you guessed since reiner was well known around the wealthy community, he must've heard about you from there. "it's lovely to meet you eren."

"same to you miss," eren said, before noticing that reiner and historia were making their way towards your area. the two didn't notice you and eren, as they were chatting.

you didn't notice and even before you could, eren had wrapped an arm around your waist and began to lead you up the stairs to the second floor. you were startled but eren had released his arm away from your waist once you both reached the top floor.

eren then lead you out to the balcony that was on the second floor, there wasn't much guest up there so you felt more eased there. eren noticed that your expression was more relaxed and smiled, though you didn't get to see.

"oh, it's jean, connie and sasha," you said, after you had looked over the ledge of the balcony and spotted your three friends. jean was patting connie's back while he was throwing up and sasha was now the one passed out. you assumed that she was causing too much commotion so he knocked her out for the time being.

"those three your friends?" eren questioned as he also looked over the ledge down at the three, then he faced back at you as you nodded your head. "i saw you with them earlier, and i was also surprised to see reiner with somebody else that wasn't you."

the mention of reiner made you turn back to eren, he had a small frown on his face. you both made eye contact once again, and you can feel your heart beating again.

"it's always like that, it's okay," you responded to eren, and turned away while bringing the glass of wine to your lips, taking another long sip. "it's obvious that he's interested in historia, but nobody seems to notice because all of their brains are so fucking small. plus, i wouldn't even want them to know such information, it'll become a huge problem and i hate attention."

eren watched your every movement and softly sighed, "but you aren't happy. wouldn't it be better to break off the engagement despite all of the rumors that could happen? just as long as your happy, that's all that matters right?"

eren's words sunk into your mind, it was true that you weren't happy. but you still didn't know, because your father would never allow you to do such thing and he really wanted his business to work well with reiner's father. but you just didn't understand why you had to get married to reiner order for all of it to happen.

your father gave vague answers whenever you asked why you had to marry him. for business reasons, he would say. you probably won't find a man to marry anyway, be grateful that i have found you someone, he would say next.

"thank you, but i don't think my father would allow me to do such thing," you admit to eren, and you could see his frown grow even more from the corner of your eyes.

eren then faced in the direction you were facing, taking his sip from his cup of wine. suddenly, his gentle smile returned to his face, "i hope you will find someone who truly loves you and makes you happy enough to make you break off the engagement with reiner."

"you seem to want me to break off the engagement with reiner," you said, slightly turning your attention to eren and raised an eyebrow.

eren's cheeks instantly turned to the color of bright red after you said that, he glanced at you for a moment and looked away again. eren cleared his throat, "well, it's not fair that reiner seems to be the only happy one and you're not. why doesn't he just break it off himself and marry that.. what's her face? historia?"

"i don't know," you answered quite truthfully, and looked back down at jean and the others. connie and sasha were seated next to each other, her head rested on his shoulder while jean was standing in front of them, sighing. "i know reiner really wants to, but i believe he can't do anything about it either even if he wants to."

eren didn't answer, and he didn't question about reiner any further as you didn't really want to talk about him anymore. thus, eren quickly changed the subject and tried his best to cheer you up.

"well! either way, you look absolutely gorgeous tonight," eren complimented, earning a surprised look from you and you blushed quite even more. eren's cheek were slightly pink, and he awkwardly scratched the back of his neck, "sorry if that sounded weird, i never complimented a woman when first approaching her before and i get flustered easily from it."

"no, it didn't sound weird at all," you reassured him, and eren softly scratched his cheek with his index finger.

"it does sound weird actually," eren spoke, breaking the awkward silence between you two. "i grew up with a girl and i get along with her quite well, and that's why most people find it weird that i can't approach another girl when i grew up with one.. but i've always considered her as a close friend."

you really didn't know what to say, but tried to make some sort of response. "i'm.. still quite flattered that you wanted to talk to me."

"i'm glad you feel that way," eren said, and you both made eye contact once again. you both broke it off for a moment before connecting your eyes back, but it was suddenly ruined when a female voice called out.

"eren!"

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