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(KAIRA'S POV) The large iron gates opened, and I felt the familiar weight of panic settle behind my ribs. I pressed my sweaty palms against the expensive leather while my body stiffened in the backseat. I wanted to close my eyes but somehow I couldn't. I sat, like a programmed robot, and watched as the car drove into the Horton empire, my first time taking the main gates instead of the staff' entrance. It was a reminder that things had taken an impossibly different turn. I've spent the last four years avoiding Slade Horton with every fiber of my being. And now, after the bombshell of my mum and his dad, I discover that I will be forced to live in the same house with him. We are about to become siblings. My bully as my stepbrother? "We don't have to go on with it. You are my priority, so if you don't want this, then I won't do it," Mum had said to me after she watched me turn into a ghost as I processed the news. Of course I wasn't in support of the marriage. But Mum has sacr

(KAIRA'S POV)Slade put me down immediately and draped his jacket over my shoulder. I stood like a doll, unmoving, waiting as the footsteps presented their owners."Oh my goodness, what happened, baby?" Mum cried as she ran towards me. "We were just on our way to get you both and then we heard you scream.""I'm fine, Mum," I whispered. I could disappear into thin air.Just the welcome home party I asked for.How wonderful it feels to be the center of attention, drenched, wearing an oversized jacket, hair plastered all around my head like wet paint and my lips blazing from my bully's kiss. The kiss…"What happened?" Mum repeated. She had gotten to me now, hands all over my face and body with worry."I slipped into the lake and fell, but Slade got me out quickly." My voice sounded like deceit itself. Calm and soft when inside I was burning, confused."You're scared of water." Mum wrapped Slade's jacket tighter around me."You shouldn't have let her take the stone steps on her own." Mum