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NATE’S JEALOUSY

CHAPTER EIGHTY-ONE: NATE’S JEALOUSYAVA’S POVThe name stayed with me long after Liam finished speaking.Victoria.I didn’t know her.At least, I didn’t think I did.But the way Liam had reacted when her name appeared told me she wasn’t some random woman from his past.She was connected to something.Something dangerous.And apparently, something connected to me.I sat on the edge of the couch, staring at the three messages on my phone.Nate stood by the window.Liam was pacing.Neither man seemed willing to look at the other.Finally, Nate spoke.“How long have you known about Victoria?”Liam stopped.“I told you. Three years.”“No. I asked how long.”Liam looked at him.“Since that night.”Nate’s jaw tightened.“And you never thought I deserved to know?”“I didn’t know if you were involved.”Nate laughed bitterly.“You keep saying that.”“Because it’s true.”“And yet you trusted Elena.”“She had evidence.”“Evidence you destroyed.”Liam’s expression hardened.“I destroyed documents

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LIAM’S SECRET

CHAPTER EIGHTY-TWO: LIAM’S SECRETAVA’S POVNobody moved.Elena’s voice came again from the other side of the door.“Nate, I know you’re in there.”Nate stared at the door as though it had suddenly become a threat.Liam moved closer to me.“Don’t open it.”Nate glanced at him.“She knows my name.”“That doesn’t mean we let her in.”I looked at Nate.“Is she dangerous?”He didn’t answer.That scared me more than anything else.I lowered my voice.“Nate?”His eyes finally met mine.“I don’t know.”A soft laugh came from the hallway.“I can hear you.”My skin prickled.Liam reached for the security panel beside the door and checked the camera.The screen showed a woman standing alone in the hallway.Dark hair.Long coat.One hand resting casually against the wall.She looked completely calm.Almost too calm.“It’s her,” Nate whispered.“How do you know?” I asked.“Because I haven’t seen her in three years.”The woman on the screen suddenly looked directly at the camera.Then she smiled.

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AVA’S CONFESSION

CHAPTER EIGHTY-THREE: AVA’S CONFESSIONAVA’S POVI stared at the photograph until the edges began to blur.It was me.There was no mistaking my face, even though the woman looking back at me seemed like a stranger.My hair was longer. My clothes were different. There was a smile on my lips that I didn’t recognize.And beside me stood Elena.The same woman who was now waiting outside the apartment.The same woman who had apparently known something about me for three years.I turned the photograph over.Nothing.No date.No name.Just a faint mark in one corner.A number.17.“What happened to me?” I whispered.Nobody answered.I looked at Liam.“You said I wasn’t supposed to remember.”He nodded.“Yes.”“Why?”“Because you were scared.”“Scared of what?”He looked at Nate.Nate was staring at the photograph too.“I don’t know how much you remember,” Liam said carefully.“Nothing.”“Not even the night?”“No.”He sighed.“Then we need to start from the beginning.”I sat down.Nate sat be

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THE RULES

CHAPTER EIGHTY-FOUR: THE RULESAVA’S POVElena didn’t step inside immediately.She stood in the doorway as though crossing that threshold would change something neither of us could undo.I looked at her more closely.She wasn’t the woman from the photograph anymore.The confidence was still there, buried somewhere beneath the exhaustion, but three years had clearly taken their toll.There were faint lines around her eyes.A small scar disappeared beneath her hairline.And she kept looking over her shoulder.“Are you being followed?”She nodded.“Not right now.”“That’s not reassuring.”“It wasn’t meant to be.”Nate appeared beside me.His expression was hard.“You have five minutes.”Elena looked at him.“You haven’t changed.”“Neither have you.”“That’s not true.”Something passed between them.Something I didn’t understand.Liam stepped closer.“What happened to you?”Elena looked at him.“You already know.”“No. I know what you told me three years ago.”“Then you know enough.”“No.

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BREAKING THEM

CHAPTER EIGHTY-FIVE: BREAKING THEMAVA’S POVThe flash drive sat on the coffee table between us.Nobody touched it.It looked harmless.That was the strangest part.After everything Elena had told me, I expected it to look like something dangerous. Something that carried a warning just by existing.Instead, it was a tiny black piece of plastic.Three years of secrets hidden inside it.Maybe three years of my life.I stared at it.“What’s on it?”Elena folded her arms.“Not everything.”“Then what’s there?”“Enough.”I hated that answer.“You keep saying that.”“Because I don’t know how much you’re ready to hear.”“I think I’ve had enough people deciding that for me.”Elena’s expression softened.“You’re right.”Nate picked up the drive.“Where did you get this?”“From someone who owed me a favor.”“Who?”“I can’t tell you.”Nate gave a humorless laugh.“Of course.”Elena looked at him.“You haven’t changed either.”“Neither have you.”“I already told you. I changed.”Their exchange ma

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THE NAME SHE COULDN’T FORGET

CHAPTER EIGHTY-SIX: THE NAME SHE COULDN’T FORGETAVA’S POVFor a few seconds, I thought Liam was joking. I looked from him to Nate, waiting for one of them to laugh or admit that this was some ridiculous misunderstanding, but neither man said a word. Nate stood in front of me with his jaw clenched, while Liam remained by the kitchen doorway, looking as though he’d just revealed something he desperately wished he could take back.“Adrian Vale,” I repeated slowly. “The man I was supposed to marry?”Nate rubbed a hand over his face. “It’s more complicated than that.”“Of course it is.” I picked up the crumpled paper from the floor and smoothed it against my palm. “My entire life seems to be one big complication that nobody wants to explain. So please, Nate, don’t give me that answer again. Tell me who this man is and why I have his name hidden in the pocket of a dress I wore three years ago.”He glanced at Liam, and my irritation flared. “Stop looking at him whenever I ask you something.

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A DANGEROUS KIND OF WANT

CHAPTER EIGHTY-SEVEN: A DANGEROUS KIND OF WANTAVA’S POVI should have gone to bed when Liam suggested it. It was late, my head was pounding, and the name Adrian Vale had been circling my thoughts for so long that I could barely remember what peace felt like. Instead, I found myself standing by the bedroom window, watching the city lights shimmer against the glass while the two men I shared my life with argued quietly in the kitchen. They had been doing that for nearly fifteen minutes, and although I couldn’t hear every word, I knew my name had come up more than once.I was beginning to resent how much of my life seemed to happen in rooms I wasn’t invited into.When I finally returned to the living room, Liam was leaning against the kitchen counter with his sleeves pushed up, while Nate sat on the sofa, his head resting against the back cushion. They both looked up when I entered. The silence that followed was almost comical.“Please don’t stop talking on my account,” I said. “I would

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THE THINGS WE ALMOST REMEMBER

CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT: THE THINGS WE ALMOST REMEMBERAVA’S POVNate read the message a second time before handing my phone to Liam, and I watched both men carefully, hoping one of them would give something away. Liam’s expression was difficult to read, but Nate looked genuinely disturbed, which should have reassured me. Instead, it made me wonder whether the message had reminded him of something he desperately wanted to keep buried. I was getting tired of studying the faces of people I cared about, searching for clues they should have been willing to give me freely.“Whoever is behind this knows about Adrian,” I said. “They know about the night of the accident, and they seem to know what I was doing before it happened. How much more of my life is sitting in someone’s hands?”“We don’t know that they have the whole story,” Liam replied. “They could be using whatever information they’ve collected to make us believe they know more than they do.”“That’s supposed to make me feel better?”“

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THE THINGS DESIRE REMEMBERS

CHAPTER EIGHTY-NINE: THE THINGS DESIRE REMEMBERSAVA’S POVBy the time morning came, I had made three cups of coffee, forgotten to drink two of them, and nearly thrown my phone out of the window. Whoever was behind the Sweet Rush messages had an irritating habit of appearing just when I began to feel normal again, and after last night’s photograph of the pendant, I was beginning to suspect that normal was something I would have to learn to live without.Liam found me in the kitchen, wearing one of Nate’s shirts and staring into a mug that had gone cold. He paused in the doorway, taking in my appearance with an expression I couldn’t quite read. “You know, most people put on actual clothes before breakfast.”I glanced down at the shirt, which fell well past my hips. “Most people don’t have a wardrobe full of men who keep secrets from them.”“Fair point.” He crossed the kitchen and reached for the coffee pot. “Although, if we’re measuring crimes, borrowing Nate’s clothes is hardly the wo

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THE ROOM WE NEVER SPOKE ABOUT

CHAPTER NINETY: THE ROOM WE NEVER SPOKE ABOUTAVA’S POVThe problem with discovering pieces of a forgotten past was that every answer seemed to arrive with three more questions attached. By the time Elena sent the hotel records, I had read the same page so many times that the words had started losing their meaning. My name appeared beside the reservation for Room 614, followed by a payment reference and a note confirming that the booking had been made shortly after nine o’clock on the evening of my accident. Someone had used my card, or at least a card registered in my name, but there was nothing in the file to prove that I’d been the person who made the reservation.Nate stood behind my chair, one hand resting on the back while he studied the screen over my shoulder. Liam had taken the other side of the table, scrolling through the accompanying documents and muttering under his breath whenever he found another missing page.“There’s a charge for dinner,” Liam said eventually. “Two pe

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