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Everything She Feared

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Aria was seated at the rear of the plush, white sofa. Open windows of the beach house let in the salty scent as well as the quiet sound of waves washing against the beach. It was soothing, too soothing for the tense night she expected

But somehow, since she and Killian agreed to meet here, she’d felt more at peace than anxious.

She was ready to speak.

Ready to tell him everything.

Ready to stop letting her past dictate her silence.

She retrieved her phone and started to look through Instagram while waiting. She grinned at some hilarious memes and videos.

Then—

A headline cut through her feed like a knife.

“Aria Blake Exposed: The Woman Behind the Lens Once Danced for Dollars.”

Her finger hovered. She didn’t click at first. She just stared.

No breath. No thought. Just the burn of disbelief rising in her chest.

She opened the article.

And there it was.

A photo of her.

Her face. Her body.

But not in anything she had worn that night. The picture was manipulated, made into something ugly
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