The Sin
Maya still remembered the day her mother, Helen, came home with a nervous smile and a diamond on her finger.
"We're going to be a family, sweetie," she'd said. "Richard is wonderful. And he has a son, Caleb. Your new stepbrother."
"Stepbrother?" The words had tasted like shit on her tongue.
What her mother failed to mention was that Caleb hated her. He hated Helen and the very foundation of their new "family."
He'd made it clear from day one: in his mind, Helen was the homewrecker who had lured his father away from his mother, and Maya was just the annoying byproduct of that betrayal.