Jason The screw on the champagne bottle made a plop, and then the champagne opened, leaving Terence's hand completely covered in foam. “Hurray! That's it, man,” he cheered as he began to pour the drinks into our glasses. “Splendid,” I commented with a giggle. "Wonderful! Just don't drink a lo
Jason Do you believe that this time things will work out between you two?” Terence asked. “Because, to be honest, my biggest fear is that you’ll come into your house again and suddenly ask for a divorce and leave everyone with their mouths open and their heads blown.” He made comical gestures as h
Suzy “Hey, you have a visitor today,” the prison guard said when she arrived at my cell. I was in the corner of the bunk, playing with my hair, trying to ignore the annoying voices of my cellmates, those annoying bitches. I hated them, she was disgusting and couldn't leave me alone. Not only that,
Jason His evil laugh on the other end of the line irritated me. “Jason, Jason, Jason. After everything we've experienced together, do you treat me this way? Why do you want to marry her, my dear Jason? You told me it's me you love and not her. Have you forgotten that?” She teased. “Stop the nons
Jason I didn't wait any longer to hear what that unpleasant woman had to say, I just turned off the cell phone and ran out of the room where I was, in a hurry to check if what she was saying was really true. “Jason? What is going on? Why such a rush?” Terence asked me, but I didn't even have tim
Jason I was trying to call Laura, but she wasn't answering my call. All of this started to make me panic, and Kendall's words started to resonate in my head. “I’m with her…”Trembling with fear, I returned the call to the number Kendall used to call me, she didn't take long to answer. “So, have you
Jason Suddenly, the door to the room opened, and it was Annie running towards me with a worried look on her face. “Is it true that Mom is missing, Dad? Where is she?” She sought to know, being terribly scared, with her eyes shining with excitement. I looked up to see Ava walking into the room hol
Jason “It's okay, Kendall. I'll send you this money, just send me the account number, and I'll send it to you today,” I told her, receiving an approving nod from Jake. But Kendall, on the other end of the line, was laughing at me like I was an idiot. “And do you really think I’m going to accept e
“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.