جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 10

01: THE NIGHT EVERYTHING SHATTERED ARIA'S POV Some people get to see their world fall apart slowly. They have time to get ready for the crash. I didn't get that chance. For me the floor just gave way. It happened spontaneously. I was completely caught off guard. Completely and utterly blindsided.☆~☆ FOUR YEARS AGO ☆~☆The ballroom was suffocating. The air felt thick with the heavy scent of expensive perfume and champagne. All around me, crystal glasses clinked in a deafening rhythm. People were moving from group to group, smiling tightly while their eyes were subtly judging everyone. I could hear them whispering to each other comparing who had the expensive clothes, whose handbag cost more than a car, who looked out of place.These people are fucking deadly than parasites. For once, I was just glad I wasn't wearing my usual oversized sweats and a baggy t-shirt. I looked down at my dress running my hands over the deep purple fabric. It was a strapless gown that I had spent the

03: THE MELTDOWN ARIA'S POVI dropped to my knees on the carpet of the suite, clutching my stomach. My breath came in short, ragged gasps.The room was turning completely upside down. I was drowning in a wave of unnatural, terrifying heat that felt like it was cooking me from the inside out. My skin felt so hot it was actually starting to sting.Through the thick blur of my tears and the dizzying fog in my head, I saw a pair of bare feet standing right in front of me. Someone was in the room. With me.I tried to scramble backward, my hands scraping against the floor, but my body refused to obey. A massive, warm presence stepped closer, completely blocking out the rest of the world.He was entirely naked except for a white towel hung low around his waist. His skin was still damp, smelling like clean water, expensive cedar wood, and pure leather. A familiar, overwhelming scent.Large, strong hands reached down, wrapping firmly around my trembling shoulders."Aria," a deep, rough voice

05: BIRTHDAY PRESENTS ARIA'S POV This wasn't an accident. Mario didn't have the brains or the motive to pull off something this huge alone. There was only one person ruthless enough to orchestrate this kind of public humiliation.Stepsister charming, Lora.Everything started adding up in my head. The two strange men who were tailing me in the corridor. She must have hired them to defile me, probably planning to record it so she could post it everywhere and destroy my reputation forever.How dare she? Who gave her the right to make plans about my body? She stole the man I loved, just like she takes every goddamn thing I own. But messing with my body was crossing a line she would deeply regret.And I wouldn't listen to any of my father's excuses this time. Enough is enough. I couldn't take a single second of this anymore.I had never missed having my mother around so much. Right now, I felt like an orphane. Honestly, sometimes I wished I was one. Having a totally biased, spineless f

GOING FAR AWAY ARIA'S POV “Then go,” my father growled, standing up from the table. “I disown you as my daughter.”“Don’t say that, dear…” Elena fake-interjected.“No, Lina. Let her go.” He yelled at her. “You idiot! Was I the one that asked him to dump you, Aria? If you had been a good girlfriend, would he have left you for your sister? You couldn't even accomplsh a simple thing as keeping your man happy, and now you are here talking down to me?” “You are acting the same way your mother did, just because she was providing for us during the short while I was broke! I can see you are really Brianna's daughter.”“ Honestly, I wonder whose daughter you actually are. Because this was the same promiscuous way she acted when she was married to me, and now you are doing the same!"He pointed a shaking, furious finger at my body. "Look at you! Marks all over your body… shameless. Who did you go and sleep with last night?”I just stood there, watching my father throw those vile words dire

FEELING LOSTJAMIE'S POVA blinding rage consumed me. I lunged forward, ready to throw my entire weight against Noah's door and break it wide open, but two heavy hands violently held me back.“Sir, step away. You can’t go in there.”My eyes flared with dangerous rage as I glared at the suit. “Get the hell out of my way before I make you move.”The guards didn’t budge a single inch. I could see from the corner of my eyes more of them approaching. Apparently, I am being labelled as a threat to their young master. They stood there like stone walls, completely unfazed by my threats. And their lapels bore the heavy silver crest of Noah's family. They weren't letting me through.My lungs squeezed so tight I could barely breathe. Noah. My best friend. The most dangerous, powerful man in our circle.Suddenly, a terrifying thought crawled into the back of my mind. I remembered the intense way Noah’s eyes always tracked Aria when he thought no one was paying attention. I remembered the way