LOGINSeventeen-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.
View MoreNORA'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 land owners 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 Everleigh and Stefan 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.ASHER'S POINT OF VIEWSo, I built her a throne. I created "Nora Feathers" because I knew it was the only way my father would let me keep her. Every move, the make-over, the auction, the "Frank" phone call, the jewelry, the gala, was a brick in the wall I was building around her.I leaned down, my lips grazing her ear. I could feel her pulse racing under my thumb. I wanted to bottle the feel of the spike, the jump under my thumb… my heart swelled with something dark, something painfully insane that couldn’t be checked, because I was too far gone; even I knew it. "You're exactly where you were always meant to be, Nora."I finally let her go, watching as she slid to the floor, her breathing ragged as she glared at me as if she wanted to punch me. I didn't help her up. I couldn't dare lay another finger on her, because I knew……If I touched her again, I wouldn't be able to stop myself from telling her the truth about everything I planned, and she wasn't ready for that. Not while she still
ASHER’S POINT OF VIEW.My knuckles still throbbed from when I punched that fucker named James three months ago. I was minding my business and doing the only other thing I enjoyed aside from sketching; Watching Nora. And that was when I looked over my shoulder, only to see that he was also staring at her; and not only that, he’d been writing about how he’d wanted her, how he wanted to fuck her, take off her clothes….and from there, I saw red. So I did the only rational thing any reasonable person would have done. I led him over to the back of the school, knowing very well no one would dare refuse or reject my summons. He walked over like a lamb to the slaughter, my Ravens surrounding him so he felt the full weight of how intimidating I could be, and then, I gave him the beating of a lifetime while warning him to do one thing: stay the fuck away from Nora.He listened to me from that moment on, but maybe he’s got another thing coming, because he keeps trying to speak to my Nora. I don
NORA'S POINT OF VIEW.The room seemed to tilt on its axis, spinning my vision and turning it blurry while I stared at my mother's boss wide-eyed… was Stephan high on something?"Father…." Asher started, his voice a jagged mix of shock and something that sounded dangerously like triumph. He didn't look like a man who had just been forced into a surprise arrangement; he looked like a man who had just won the final hand of a high-stakes poker game as he stared at his father with a barely controlled smile.I wanted to bite him…. shouldn't he be fighting against this???"The announcement will be made at the Winter Gala next month," Stephan said, dismissing any protest with the cold finality of a judge passing sentence without looking at his son. He turned to me with a strict smile and commanded. "Nora, you will be moved into the East Wing of my mansion tomorrow. Frank tells me he has you staying in some expensive apartment all by yourself? I cannot have the press finding that out once the
NORA'S POINT OF VIEW.He didn’t look around, he simply commanded; ‘Everyone except Asher and Nora, leave now.” Without question, they all grabbed whatever they needed to and headed out, closing the door behind them. Lydia looked as though she wanted to object, but one glance from Stephan made her shut her mouth, bow her head, and walk along.‘Father, we were just playing a game.” Asher said, rising to his feet along with me.“Quiet, Asher,” Stephan said, his eyes bright with something I couldn’t read just yet as he turned to me. “I was just on the phone with my old friend, Frank. He was quite impossible to get a hold of, but I was finally able to, and he and I came to an agreement. But first, you must speak to him.” He said, handing me a phone. I looked at Asher with wide eyes full of fear. He seemed as apprehensive as I, his lips thin as he stared at the phone as if it were a snake.“He-hello, dad.” I stuttered, hoping to whoever was listening that Asher had taken care of Frank prope
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