Stephanie's Pov Hatred did not come all at once, it grew slowly, quietly, festering beneath the surface of every smile I gave her, every kind word I spoke, every time I stood beside her pretending to be her closest ally while wishing with everything in me that she would simply disappear, because as long as she existed Kendrick would never truly be mine. And I wanted him, not just in the way a girl admires a boy, but in a way that consumed me completely, in a way that made it impossible to accept a life where I stood on the sidelines watching him belong to someone else. So when they finally got together, when the bond between them solidified in the eyes of everyone who mattered, I made my move. I knew Kendrick better than anyone liked to admit and I knew exactly how to slip into the spaces Nilah left unguarded, how to plant small seeds of doubt without ever appearing malicious, how to speak softly, innocently, weaving words that seemed harmless but lingered long after they wer
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