MasukSeventeen-year-old Nora Macie has spent her entire life surviving in the shadows of the Collins mansion. Her mother is the underpaid and mute housekeeper who raised Nora to stay silent, stay small, and stay invisible. Master Stephan Collins pays Nora’s tuition at Riverbrook High, a constant reminder that their lives belong to the family. Especially to Asher Collins, the arrogant heir who is expected to take over the Collins food empire. Nora obeys the rules she was raised with: do not look at Master Asher, do not speak to Master Asher, do not fall for Master Asher. His mother drilled them into her every month. She has always kept her distance from him, until one humiliating accident shatters her carefully controlled world. One night, she films a private sex tape meant for her eyes only. She tries to delete it, but her fingers slip, and the video is sent straight to Asher Collins, the guy who is also her stepbrother! She expects humiliation, exposure, and ruin. Instead, Asher watches it with hunger, curiosity, and a dangerous idea. When he discovers her hopeless crush on James Porter, the flawless leader of the Library Club, he offers a deal. He will transform her into someone unforgettable, someone every boy at Riverbrook High notices. Refuse, and he will tell his mother that the maid’s daughter is in love with him. The makeover ignites chaos. Rich boys notice her. James notices her. Damien Priest, Asher’s rival, notices her. And worst of all, Asher begins to want her too. The quiet maid’s daughter is suddenly the center of a war she never asked for—a war of obsession, jealousy, and temptation. And the boy who is supposed to help her might be the one who destroys her.
Lihat lebih banyakNORA'S POINT OF VIEW.
Asher Collins is poison...at least, everyone at Riverbroke High says he is. He's the son of my mother's employee, the guy who would inherit billions, no, trillions of dollars, as well as properties from his family of landowners and food conglomerates. I, on the other hand, was nothing but the daughter of the housekeeper. I was disposable; at least I heard that every damn day.
Asher was the only son of Catherine Everleigh and Stefan Maximillian Collins. he was their golden son. No, literally their golden boy. When I was twelve, I watched them fuss over him because a watermelon seedling had stuck to his jaw from his fall accident....it was a damn seed, but they treated it as if it were the entire world crumbling.
It was almost pathetic, but I chose to stomach it instead.
They owned me...us, and we never heard the end of it. His father pays my tuition f*e as a sign of gratitude for my mother keeping her mouth shut about the child they shared together.
I was going to hell.; because i sinned with my stepbrother.
Riverbroke High was Asher's domain; his kingdom, and I was simply a peasant in that kingdom. The bastard has bullied me ever since I set foot in that darned place, along with his stupid girlfriend, Lydia. Oh, scratch that, fiancé. But instead of lashing out, I took it all on my chin, choosing instead to focus on the one reason I didn't crash out in front of everyone.
My mother.
Everyone says growing up invisible is easy.
They’re nothing but liars.
Being invisible hurts in a way people never talk about.
It suffocates you, and it shrinks you until it teaches you to fold yourself into corners so quietly that even your own heartbeat feels too loud….too…..exposing.
I learned that from the moment I understood words and what it meant to be a resident inside the Collins mansion.
Where silence wasn’t a choice.
It was a survival tactic.
My mother was the help, and she’d drilled it into me from the moment I could walk: stay small, stay quiet, stay unseen. A maid’s daughter shouldn’t be heard or seen. Make sure your presence isn’t even noticed, especially not around the family that owns your roof, your meals, your future. And never around Asher Collins. Especially him. No one except my mother and I knew he was my stepbrother by blood, and my master by calling. One day, he would own the immense wealth amassed by the tenth generation before him, leaving all of us at his mercy, scrambling for any bit of his favor so that when he assumes his throne, we could get some semblance of grace.
The bastard was cocky, arrogant, and every bit of the spoilt rich boy you could imagine, and much worse. The second I attained puberty, my hips became something even my big clothes could barely hide; so his mother pulled me to the side, and drilled three rules into my soul, commanding me to mumble them every day.
Don’t look at Master Asher.
Don’t talk to Master Asher. And the most important one of all;
Don’t fall for Master Asher.
But she didn’t know; I'd broken two of those rules six months ago on my eighteenth birthday…. I’d fucked her son. We were both drunk, and it happened before either of us could blink inside his father’s office when he’d caught me snooping. We were the only ones home, or so I had thought. I’d come out of my small room in the belly of the house to finally wander the halls forbidden to the maids when I’d found him perusing through some files, a bottle of wine on his right side.
His smirk was too tempting…..I didn’t know when I downed three glasses, allowed him to take my shirt off, and take my virginity on the Persian rug. When it was over, he collapsed on me, leaving me to usher him off and escape before his father walked in to find his naked son drunk out of his mind on the floor.
I was the only one with any recollection of that night….yet even though I should be happy about that, it stung.
Six months later, Asher avoided me like a plague; he always did, but at least then he could insult me in the company of his rich friends from the day I enrolled in his elite school……but ever since then, he didn’t even act as if I existed.
Reeling from that sting, I took a vow; nothing would connect me and the arrogant heir and me to the Collins fortune ever again. But staring at my phone, my heart pounding, my fingers clammy, I couldn’t help but feel like a fucking clown….. I’d broken the vow.
The message ticked delivered, and just before I could click the button to delete it from his phone….it ticked blue. He's watched the video!
A couple of minutes ago, I wanted to feel something other than the embarrassing sting of Asher treating me like an insignificant speck of dust; even though it was what I wanted, along with the fact that the guy I’ve crushed on for the past two months didn’t see me as anything other than a friend. So I decided to masturbate….while filming it.
I’d slipped into the tiny room my mom and I shared at the back of the house, my hands shaking as I locked the door behind me. It was the first time I’d ever done it, but it was exhilarating while it lasted. “Asher…please.” I’d whispered under my breath as my fingers sped up against my swollen clit, the sound of my muffled moans, and wetness filled the air. But just before I could come, I heard a soft creak of the floorboards, almost as if someone stood right outside my room.
“W-who is it?” I croaked, my voice raspy from my pleasure; my hand still inside my panties as my eyes trained on the door handle, expecting it to twist even though I’d locked it. Nobody answered. So I turned off the recording and was just about to hit delete when all of a sudden, the floorboards creaked again, and my fingers slipped, hitting send to the first contact on my phone…Asher Collins.
NORA'S POINT OF VIEW. "You want the cage, Nora. You love the way I look at you. You love the fact that I would burn this entire city to the ground just to keep you safe, that I would walk away from everything in a heartbeat if it means we would be together. You're just as broken as I am, and that’s why you’re terrified. Because you know that if you fold, there’s no coming back. You’ll be mine. Forever." The honesty in his voice was a physical blow. I wanted to deny it. I wanted to tell him he was delusional. But I could feel the truth of it in the way my blood was boiling, in the way my lower stomach was coiling with a familiar, shameful heat with each poke of his cock. I hated him for knowing me so well. I hated him for seeing through the lies I spread. “Do you feel what you do to me, butterfly?” he whispered, his hips thrusting in my clothed ass while his hands held onto mine against his chest so I could feel his violentheartbrat. “Every time I see you, these are the things I hav
NORA’S POINT OF VIEW.Trying my hardest to hide how affected I was by the minimal space between us, or the fact that we’d fucked in the bathroom a couple hours ago, or the added fact that my so called crush was gay meaning I had no chance with him, I stared at my fingers like they were the most interesting things id ever seen, Asher’s gaze hot on my skin as he watched me intently as if we had all the time in the world.He was parked right a couple of houses away from the Collins mansion, refusing to let me head in for some reason…he wanted answers. A part of me regretted that I’d been so weak earlier, that I allowed my desires, my feelings, my urges to cloud my sense of judgement in that moment of weakness, where instead of pushing Asher off of me, I allowed him to peel my clothes off my body, and fuck me on that counter.Yet again, I fucked my stepbrother… and I wanted to hate myself for it, but I couldn't. Because a much larger part of me was happy we’d fucked again, not in a sick w
SEBASTIAN'S POINT OF VIEW."First of all," Asher said, pouring a glass of whiskey into two glasses before handing one to me with a mocking half-bow, "your threats are adorable. Truly. Very knight in shining armor, and frankly, seeing you like this after thinking you were gay for years because you refused to so much as make out with a girl even in truth or dare…it feels liberating to be right.” He chuckled. “ But you’re being a moron.""A moron? Ash, James is my life! If she...”"She won't," Asher cut me off, leaning back against the bar and crossing his arms as he took occasional sips of the alcohol, a forlorn look on his face as if he headed to a distant place in his mind. "Nora isn't like Lydia or the rest of the vultures in this school….. surprisingly so because you would think she;s lose some of her humanity since living in that mansion, and schooling in this shark tank. She’s... she’s good. Sometimes annoyingly so, because she lets people push her around without saying anything a
SEBASTIAN’S POINT OF VIEW.“James, wait!” I yelled the moment my boyfriend dashed past me, Asher, and Nora, running out of the hallway as if his feet were on fire. I made to run past him the moment he did, but I didn’t even get to take five steps when I felt a heavy hand clamp down on my shoulder, pulling me back immediately.My heart pounded with fear…I knew James, even more than he liked to admit, I did. The fact that he ran the way he did meant that he was probably on the verge of another panic attack, and if I wasn’t there to calm him down, he could faint….all alone wherever he’d run to. “Let me go, Asher! I need to go after him….he can't be alone right now.” I hissed, anger and frustration pulsing in my veins as I watched the love of my life run into the gardens. I didn’t care about the school or what they would think if they saw us together, I didn’t care about my position in the Ravens, or the Crown, or what my friends would think about me. I’d learned to live with the judgme

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