My name is Lena, and for as long as I could remember, my older sister Sophia had been the sun around which our entire family orbited. Unlike me, she was everything. Beautiful, poised, ambitious, you name it . Just the perfect daughter our parents had always dreamed of. At 28, she was about to marry Jonathan Hale, the kind of man who commanded attention wherever he went. Tall, broad shouldered with sharp cheekbones, dark tousled hair, and eyes the color of aged whiskey that seemed to see straight through people. He was successful, charming, and supposedly completely devoted to Sophia. Or so everyone believed. I was the younger sister for four years. 25 and still very much struggling. Struggling to build my graphic design career in a tiny city apartment while Sophia and Jonathan lived in their nice penthouse. I had always kept my distance from him. Not because I disliked him, but because something about him terrified me. He noticed everything. In every room we shared, his gaze lin
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