Masuk“I swear, I’ll kill you if you don’t back the hell up.” “I much rather you kiss me.” ... Twenty-two-year-old Nora Macie is a master of invisibility. As the maid’s daughter in the suffocating Collins mansion, silence isn't just a virtue, it’s survival. With her college tuition funded by the family who owns her mother’s future, Nora’s plan is simple: graduate, stay quiet, and disappear. That plan shatters when a private, scandalous video is accidentally sent to the one person who can destroy her: Asher Collins. Asher is the ruthless heir to a billion-dollar empire and Nora’s untouchable stepbrother. He holds her fate in his hands, but instead of exposing her, he becomes dangerously obsessed. When he discovers Nora’s hidden crush on the "golden boy" James Porter, Asher makes a proposal she can’t refuse. He will remake her—transforming the invisible girl into a woman who commands every room she enters. The metamorphosis is explosive. Suddenly, Nora is the center of a gravity she didn’t ask for. James Porter finally notices her, and Damien Priest, Asher’s lethal rival, begins circling with predatory interest. Her quiet world unravels as she is thrust into a high-stakes game of desire and power. Asher remains the architect of her transformation, pulling the strings with calculated precision. But as Nora evolves into the unforgettable creature he designed, the lines between mentor and monster begin to blur. He was supposed to be teaching her how to catch another man’s eye, yet he can’t stop watching her himself. In a world of glittering wealth and dark secrets, Nora is no longer hiding. But being noticed comes with a price, and Asher is finding it impossible to remember that she was never meant to be his.
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.
DAMIEN’S POINT OF VIEW.For a moment, all I can do is stare at the picture on my screen. A part of me believes it isn’t real…..yes, Nora has mentioned a certain Maave a handful of times, but this could be a prank text.It could be an edited or doctored image….My heart pounds violently against my rib cage. For a moment, I forget how to breathe, my lungs feel like they’ve trapped air in, and my vision blurs, forcing me to grab the handle of my bike.Exiting the messenger app, I pulled up my keypad, dialing Nora’s number. “Come on, Nora, pick up.”I muttered, my fingers drumming on the leather of the bike handle. Her phone rings for what feels like forever, but she doesn't pick up. It only goes to voicemail instead.“Fuck!” I snapped, nearly throwing the phone to the floor. I dialed her number again, waiting and hoping she would pick up this time around.However, the same thing happens… no, this time around, the automated voice from the network provider comes in;“Sorry, but this number
DAMIEN’S POINT OF VIEW.“Sage?” I frowned, my mind trying to piece together how the hell Sage got to even know about this. “How the hell did my sister find a way to tell you about anything that went on inside the house, Blair? She wasn’t even inside, or anywhere near the building.”“She didn’t explain how, okay? She only told me what happened. How am I supposed to know how she got the information?”“Blair..” I let out an exasperated sigh, pinching the bridge of my nose, my eyes shut tightly for a second, before I glared at her again. “I’m going to say this one final time; I do not like you, you and I will never have that chance you think.” She flinched as if I burned her, eyes full of tears as her lower lip wobbled. “There is nothing you say or do that will ever change that fact. Please stop now; this is hard to watch and embarrassing.I don’t play about Nora; I love that woman more than my life. I don’t care about the lengths I have to go to; I will protect her interests at all costs
NORA’S POINT OF VIEW.The silence Blair left upon her exit was deafening, high-pitched, and could probably detonate a bomb. My knees felt weak, but for some reason, I hadn’t hit the floor yet. From a distance, I heard what sounded like the joined voices of Maeve and Elena speaking loudly into my ears. Perhaps they were trying to convince me that Blair was lying…but all I could hear were those six words Blair had said;He came many times.The words were like claws, shredding whatever confidence I’d tried to summon these last two days, ever since Damien and I talked. All of a sudden, I could barely breathe, or cry….or feel. My world had lost color, too. The corset was too tight, the material of the dress felt itchy against my skin, and I wanted to rip it off my body.My chest rose and fell rapidly, and I could hear my breathing coming out in sharp, rushed spurts. If Damien had touched her, come to me, then touched me with that skin, I would scratch my skin off. He looked me in the eye w
NORA’S POINT OF VIEW.After a grueling five hours of Maeve and Elena teaming up to throw me into different, skin-tight dresses and heels that looked like they'd break my neck and ankle at the same time if I dared trip over air, I was ready to tap out. But I knew I couldn't dare do it... Maeve and Elena would bite my head off.“I think this dress would be much better than that last one she tried on.” I heard Elena whisper to Maeve from the other side of the VIP shopping area, where I sat. I was on my feet for so long, I couldn’t bear another minute of standing, not with the way my ankles ached.“Oh yes! That one will have everyone staring at her tonight. Nora, what do you think?” They turned to me, pushing the dress up.“Huh? Oh….it looks good.” I said absentmindedly, barely caring anymore. I didn’t mind putting on a sackcloth. I just need to do anything besides get thrown into a dressing room, only to see Maeve and Elena shake their head with disappointment before throwing another dre
NORA’S POINT OF VIEW. I’m on fire. No….quite literally on fire. When the morning sun rose, my forehead burned, my throat felt like I’d swallowed a handful of gravel and washed it down with sawdust. Just as the sun flared behind the curtains, pricks and needle-like pain wrecked my body. “Ugh.” A
NORA’S POINT OF VIEW.I could taste my heart in my mouth with each second passing by as the dean and his team looked over the card. My grip on Asher was tight as my eyes focused on the way they swiped the card over the meter. It was a matter of waiting. In less than no time, they would find out my s
NORA’S POINT OF VIEW.I thought the rave was the most chaotic thing I would ever experience…little did I know, the rich kids were built different. By the time Monday morning came, Riverbrooke High had already devoured me alive with everything they'd got.Before I went to bed that Sunday night, I’d d
NORA'S POINT OF VIEW"Then don't talk. Let me do the talking. You just look pretty and look at me like you want to devour me." He commanded, a smug smile on his face. Everyone still stared at us, not sensing the tension as we maintained the same dreamy smiles to keep face. "Head up, bunny," Asher mu












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