When Love Becomes Pain
On the way to a dance competition, a massive truck rammed into me. My legs were shattered, and my mother was sent flying from the impact after she tried to protect me.
My stepbrother, who was also my secret boyfriend of six years, went crazy after hearing the news. He had the driver dragged off to a lawless borderland and called in the best doctors in the country to save me and my mother.
Not many people knew, but I was born with a rare sensitivity to pain. The more it hurt, the clearer my mind became.
That was how I ended up lying wide awake on the bed, listening to Luke Quinton and his friend, Harvey Lane, talking just outside my hospital room.
"Luke, are you sure about this? You reall