Laura "What? Are you expecting twins? Ava asked, completely shocked, unable to understand what she was saying, so loudly that everyone within a 10-meter radius heard what she said. “Keep your composure, for God’s sake!” I shouted in whispers with her, looking at the people there in the gallery.
Ava Suzy, that bitch, had only appeared there just to ruin our happiness. Laura and I were having a great girl's day doing our shopping, talking about our kids, and making future plans, but that demon in the form of a person named Suzy had shown up to ruin the moment. “Ava and Laura? No wonder I
Suzy I threw my luxury bag hard in the corner as soon as I entered my house, which was a luxury apartment that I had bought some time ago in one of New York's expensive neighborhoods. Now that my account was fat with so much money after I managed to get the inheritance from the Williams, I could d
Laura I was looking in the mirror, noticing my image and liking what I was seeing. My five-month-old belly was already huge, and I could even feel the twins moving around inside. Being pregnant is a wonderful feeling, and on top of that, knowing that there were twins inside made me happier. I fel
Laura “Dear guests and couple,” Ava was saying as she took the floor in the middle of the reveal party. “Now the time has come when we will all find out the sex of our babies. Are you prepared for this?” She created suspense by making people respond in a chorus of excitement. Jason and I were hol
Laura But Jason couldn't take it; it seemed like he was more prone to crying than me. “Obviously,” he said through laughter. “I’ve never been so sure in my life that I want to spend the rest of my days by your side.” “So let's be crazy together until old age,” I said, slipping the ring on his ring
Laura I had a bitter taste in the roof of my mouth when I realized what the woman was talking about. It was about my mother; that woman had crucial information about my mother… I felt Jason's hand in mine, comforting me. “Who were you for her, if I may ask?” He asked a little suspiciously, trying
Laura I was looking at the scenery outside the car window as night fell over the city. Jason was driving the car, and his hand was in mine, giving me comfort as we followed the car in front of us, the Albert's car which he was with his mother. After the long afternoon of conversation, that woman
“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.