LOGINLilly snorts like that’s the funniest thing she’s ever heard.“I’m serious,” Juliette continues before her attention shifts back to me. “Especially after the advice she gave me in Paris. Which reminds me,” she says, narrowing her eyes slightly, “I’m very disappointed you never used the card I gave y
Lilly blinks slowly before she bursts out laughing.“That’s probably Mom,” she says casually.My breathing picks up as I scramble with my phone. “No—no, I need to send it back.”“What?” she grabs my wrist. “Are you insane?”“That’s too much, Lilly,” I argue. “How is she supposed to run the company?
“I’m leaving,” I say, stopping a few steps away from him. “I only agreed to stay one night, so now it’s time for me to leave.”I brace myself for an argument, for him to push back the way he usually does, but instead, he nods.“Fine.”That catches me off guard and I immediately deflate. I was ready
SIERRA.I’m just finishing getting ready when my phone rings. For a second, I stare at the screen, not really expecting to see his name there, but when I do, my chest tightens slightly.I hesitate before answering, then swipe to pick up the call.“Hey, Adrian,” I say softly.There’s a small pause on
After dinner, the twins insist she helps tuck them in. We go together, the routine surprisingly easy, like we’ve done it a hundred times before. Nova falls asleep first. After Nolan falls asleep, we step out of his room, closing the door behind us.I hesitate before speaking “Can we talk?”She turns
My thoughts drift again, but this time it’s to the scene in the car. What she told me keeps playing in my head.I tense slightly, pushing away from the window every single inch of my body fighting against her words.‘You loved Chloe.’I refuse the statement, shaking my head, as I try to ground mysel
I watch the two officers as they approach us. I had someone dig into their background, and there seems to be nothing out of the ordinary.After what happened to mom. Iris’s Dad pretending to be a cop in order to get close to her and take her out, I couldn’t take the risk.He’s changed, and Iris visi
The sound of the flatline drills into my skull like a blade. I can’t move. I can’t breathe. All I can do is stare as the doctors keep pressing those damn paddles to her chest, shouting numbers, shouting for life.“Come on, Sierra,” I whisper. “Come on.”This can’t be happening.This can’t be happeni
Everything inside me freezes at his words. They echo in my head like a broken record, over and over again, each repetition more suffocating than the last.This is impossible. Maybe they’re wrong. How could someone want me dead? Who would want me dead?I stare at them, unable to form a single word. M
I remember the last time he gave me hope. It was after we joined Uni. Chloe had broken up with him for reasons known only to her. He’d shown up at my apartment one evening, looking like the world had broken him. I was so startled to see him there—Noah Woods, standing on my doorstep with red eyes and







