LOGINI never pried because I thought that once we were more serious in our relationship, I’d meet them because they were part of his circle, just like he would get to meet Lilly.Looking back at those conversations…I should have asked more. I should have pushed. I should have at least asked for a name. M
SIERRA.“Adrian?”The name leaves Noah’s lips like a ghost.His name and the familiarity in it loops in my mind on repeat, echoing over and over no matter how hard I try to shut it out.“Noah?”Besides me, Adrian stills as if he’s seen a ghost. He looks at Noah like he doesn’t trust what he is curre
He doesn’t move or speak. He doesn’t even blink for a second.Then finally, after what feels like decades, he breathes, “What the fuck…”“Exactly what I thought," I say, looking at a spot on the floor.“I thought she was bad,” he continues, running a hand through his hair, pacing now. “I thought sh
I don’t know how long I’ve been sitting here… Minutes? Hours? Days?Time doesn’t make sense anymore. Not after everything I read. Not after everything I know now.I’ve been sitting here, wracking my brain, trying to understand how I missed it all these years. How I never once got even the slightest
I slam the diary shut and hurl it across the room as my chest heaves, my breaths coming in uneven bursts.“Sorry?” I rasp.She was sorry? As if that fixes anything. As if that erases years of damage. As if that gives Sierra back everything we took from her.A guttural sound rips from my throat as I
“My God…” The voice that leaves me is unrecognizable.I thought Chloe and I had built something real, something beautiful, only to realize that it wasn’t. It was stolen.I lived a life that was never meant to be hers. A life that belonged to Sierra.I lived out a dream, while the woman who created i
Panic coils tightly inside me, squeezing until I almost forget how to breathe. I drag in a shaky breath through my nose, trying to shove down the anxiety clawing its way up my throat.Dinner. On the surface, it sounds innocent enough, but I know Aunt Ava. Nothing she does is without purpose. Yes, ma
“Young Master Wood, you’re home.” My parents’ housekeeper greets me at the door. I had to use a different car to get here because paparazzi were everywhere.“How many times have I told you to call me Noah?” I give her a small smile. “You’ve known me since I was a teenager.”She grins at me but does
His hand clamps around my arm, fingers digging in too tightly. I wince, struggling to pull free.“Let me make something clear,” he hisses. “You will never and I mean never replace Chloe. You can’t even measure up so what makes you think you can’t take her place? What makes you think that I’d ever fa
What the fuck!I stare at the headline, reading it over and over, as if the words will somehow rearrange themselves if I just blink hard enough. They don’t. The words don’t fade; they remain on the screen, glaring at me.BILLIONAIRE HEIR, NOAH WOODS, SPOTTED OUTSIDE BIO-RENEW IN ALTERCATION WITH SIE







