Chapter 176

[Cordelia]

When I returned to the studio, the cookies, and Tilly, were gone.

A note was waiting for me on the refrigerator. "Gone to my mom's for the weekend. I'll be back for the photoshoot on Monday. I love you."

I wonder if she left a similar note for Clark. I don't know what happened between them, but I know that he loves her. Their relationship is so new. I hope they can find a way to come back together.

"And what about you," I say to myself in the empty space. "Can you forgive Atlas?"

The truth is, I need someone to hold me right now. I'm not sure I have the strength to see what is inside that envelope.

My parents are not my parents. My sister is not my sister.

Sydney is back, and she isn't satisfied with taking my husband anymore, she wants my entire life. She is trying to destroy my business and claims my ideas are hers. She even has the love of my parents who are convinced she is their long-lost daughter.

I was just the substitute. Maybe I've always been the substitute. Subs