The jealousy hit Mia like a slap of summer lightning sharp, electric, and impossible to ignore.Mia had just turned 18 two weeks ago, and the summer heat in their quiet suburban neighborhood felt thicker than ever. Her older brother, Jake, was home from college for the break, and as usual, his best friend Ethan was practically living at their house. Ethan was 22, tall, with messy dark hair, broad shoulders from years of basketball, and that easy, cocky grin that made Mia’s stomach flip every time he looked her way.She’d had a crush on him since she was 14, but now… now she was legal, and the way his eyes lingered on her when Jake wasn’t looking had changed everything.She stood frozen at her bedroom window, her fingers gripping the sill so tightly her knuckles bleached white. Down by the pool, the afternoon sun turned everything golden and cruel. Jake was laughing loudly, his hands already wandering over some college girl in a bright red bikini. But it wasn’t Jake who made Mia’s sto
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