LOGINHe 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
Sierra’s words kept ringing in my head over and over like a broken record. They just kept coming back no matter how hard I tried to push them away.The entire ride, it’s all I could think about. All I could obsess about, because honestly, they made no sense at all.[Until you understand the full sco
I drag a hand through my hair, exhaling slowly.“I just… needed to see you,” I admit, my voice rough.Her expression doesn’t soften. If anything, it hardens.“You’ve seen me,” she says flatly. “Now you can leave.”The words land like a punch to the gut because I deserve that. I deserve worse.“I kno
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
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
He’s not wrong. My perfection has always been my shield and now it’s the weapon pointed at my throat. No one is surprised by Brad Shaw’s scandals because they’re used to them, but with me, they’ll eat this up like it’s manna from heaven.“I’ll deal with it,” I grind out.He studies me for a long mom
The words burn as they leave me, because I know the truth: I’m the one to blame. Brook might have given me the match, but I’m the one that lit it and set things ablazeThe image of the angry red marks staining Sierra’s skin sears through me. Those are my marks, made by hand. Those thoughts, that rea







