When the doors swung open, it was like stepping into another world. My eyes couldn’t believe what they were taking in. The banquet hall was even more extravagant than the rest of the mansion. More extravagant than what my imagination could have ever come up with.My breath caught in my throat.Cryst
The massive doors to the entrance of the banquet hall slammed shut after Liam left. I got up from the table then and Aaron reached over it, grabbing my hand, “Ella, please wait, I have to talk to you about something.”But I pulled my hand out of Aaron’s grasp. There was nothing more for us to talk a
In the days that followed my meeting with Aaron, I was feeling so all over the place. How could Aaron make that ask of me. He wanted me to keep this secret relationship that Aaron and could enter into. He wanted to me to try to convince Liam to join the family.It all felt like such a betrayal becau
That fucking bastard. I couldn’t believe what Ella had told me. Aaron was trying to use her as a pawn to get to me. I was furious that Ella had even considered joining him. Of course I was. Ella and I were a team and here she was trying to break us apart.How could she not know that even entertainin
I stormed out of the Winslow mansion, my mind a chaotic mess of anger and frustration. Every word Aaron had said echoed in my ears, fueling the rage that burned inside me. Who the fuck did he think he was, really?I had come there to tell him to stay the hell out of my life. I’d come there to tell h
The next day, I found myself standing outside the Winslow mansion, a mixture of anxiety and determination swirling inside me. Even though the last time I was at the mansion, I’d left pissed off with a promise to myself never to come back, here I was, again. I had agreed to meet with Aaron, to hear
I still hadn’t talked to Liam for almost a week. He wasn’t picking up my calls. He refused to stay after class so that we could walk together. I understood why he did this though. He was still hurt over how I had gone behind his back to talk to Aaron.My mind buzzed with everything that had happened
Even though I had tried to believe mom’s words, tried to believe the story that I was telling in my head about the positive sides of attending Royal Imperial University, deep down, I know that I was just lying to myself.I couldn’t shake off the feeling of unease. Even after talking to Mom, the idea