“Yes, he may be all that, but you know your heart is weak for guys like Will Herondale, intense guys like me. That's why you fell in love with me and married me,” he reminded me. Jason and I had talked once about the characters in one of the fantasy books I liked, and he ended up saying that I was a
Laura “Are they gone already?” Suzy asked as soon as I got back to my apartment. “Uh-hum,” I replied, nodding, and plopped down on the couch, feeling extremely tired and with a headache. “The day was huge today, wasn’t it?” She commented with a giggle, seeing my deplorable situation. I nodded
Kendall The taxi was stopped in front of a prison, with me inside. It had taken me a long time to locate this person, but since I was a persistent woman, I never gave up, just as I never gave up on recovering what was mine. I got out of the taxi after paying the toll and headed towards the prison
Laura I let him into my office. Graham Thompson, was different than I remembered him; he was taller and older than many years ago. Graham had abandoned me at our aunt's house when I was a little older than Annie. “Stay here and don't follow me; you're a dead weight to me,” he said back then, push
Laura “But he’s my brother, Gideon. Despite everything, he and I have the same blood,” I said, defending my point of view. How could I not put myself in Graham's shoes? He was the only person who was there when my parents were alive... When I saw him again, it was like opening an album of memories
Laura “Oh, Laura. It's me, Graham; I ended up getting your address from Hextec. It's just... well, I have nowhere to sleep today. Could you let me sleep over at your house?” He asked in a sad voice. I gasped when I heard that. How come? How had he gotten my damn address? “I know I must be abusi
Laura “Are you sure you want to sleep in the living room with him? The couch doesn't look that comfortable to sleep on,” I said to Gideon as he went to say goodnight to me at my bedroom door. My fussy little daughter was jumping on my bed while singing something, waiting for me to join her in sle
“Daddy, I need to go to sleep now,” said the girl to her father in a low voice as if even that was a secret between them. I shook my head, crossing my arms over my chest. The girl handed the cell phone to me. “Daddy said he wants to talk to you, Mommy,” she said. I sighed, taking out my cell phone
“Why do you keep hanging out with them, Abby?” he asked, and now there was a note of concern that annoyed me even more. “You know Madison’s not good for you. She uses you, and you let her.” “It’s none of your business,” I shot back, my voice sharp. “I do what I want, Caleb. Bye.” I hung up before h
Abby POV It was a lazy Sunday, and I was at the mall’s food court, waiting at the counter to pick up snacks for myself and the “new friends” I’d managed to latch onto. The smell of grease and cheap coffee filled the air, and the hum of conversations mixed with the muffled pop music from the speaker
Caleb, Abby, Madison, Nadia—they all spun through my head like a broken carousel. I wanted to tell my parents everything, collapse and ask for help, but the thought of seeing disappointment in their eyes—or worse, them trying to intervene at Oxwell to “save” me—made me swallow the words. I had to fi
Annie POV It was the weekend, and I was at home, trying to take deep breaths and pretend everything was okay. The Oxwell campus was a few hours away, giving me temporary relief from the chaos my life had become. Here, with my parents and the twins, I could at least try to be the old Annie—the exc
Max POV Walking beside someone who’d once meant so much to me felt strange. I couldn’t stop thinking that our breakup had been a waste, couldn’t stop remembering how happy I’d been with this guy, only to ruin it all because of my ego, because of a toxic fixation I had on Albert. Conrad Adams walke
Max POV was stunned when Albert told me that, my mouth even went dry because I wasn’t expecting to hear it. Conrad Adams was back. He was my boyfriend in my early twenties. I met him through Albert, who was close friends with him during the dark days of his family’s company. Conrad was a good guy
Max POV I was driving through the city with the radio on low, just a background murmur to keep the silence from swallowing me whole, when my phone buzzed on the dashboard. Zoey. Of course it was her. The girl had already wormed her way into my house like a high-heeled parasite, and now, apparently,
Annie POV After the moment at the mall, I returned to the dorm with a tight chest, carrying the bags with the blue dress Summer had insisted I buy. The plan was to distract myself, but Madison’s words—“racist,” “canceled piece of trash”—spun in my head like a broken record, mingling with Nadia’s re
When I met her last week at a council meeting, I could tell she’d be a challenge—confident, charismatic, the type who knew how to play the game. “Ugh, Madison Goodwin is here too. What a rotten day,” I grumbled, rolling my eyes. Of course Abby would get close to Madison—she was her adopted cousin.