*~~Chapter One Hundred and Twenty-Four~~*

{~~Ava Sterling~~}

When I left this dump, I fully expected it to crash and burn without me. I pictured the chaos, the people falling to the ground in despair, sobbing, begging for me to come back and restore order. Rex was supposed to be my sure thing—my lover, my partner, my everything. We were happy at the start, a whole nine months of bliss, but it didn't take long for things to start shifting. I was just trying to chase happiness, and for a while, I thought I’d found it with him. Don’t I deserve that much? To be happy?

But of course, life had other plans. My fucking twin, who’s never had anything good happen to her, is suddenly swimming in all this attention—and it’s all because of me. All because I couldn’t just settle with Logan. He was steady, reliable, and probably the best choice, but no—I had to go after Rex, thinking he was my true love, the one who’d complete me. How fucking naive. The only thing true about what Rex feels for me is how he uses me. The women around us—they