When I forced my eyes open, all I could see was red.Blood clung to my lashes and my throat felt packed with broken glass. I tried to speak, but my chest seized before a sound could come out, and a mouthful of dark blood spilled over my lips.“Yvette!”My mother’s voice cracked on my name. Veronica DeLuca was not a woman who lost control. But when she dropped to the ground and gathered me into her arms—“Baby, look at me.” She brushed the blood from my mouth with trembling fingers. “Stay with me. Don’t you dare close your eyes.”Above us, at the rail of the glass tower, Kane leaned out and looked down like he was already sick of the whole scene.“Mom, don’t fall for this,” he called. “She jumped on purpose to pin it on Sofia. It’s two stories, for Christ’s sake. Nobody dies from a fall like that.”Sofia stood half behind him, pale and watery-eyed at exactly the right moment.“This is all my fault,” she sobbed. “If I hadn’t taken her place, she wouldn’t have gotten so upset. Kane, pleas
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