For Her, He Destroyed Me
I told Charlie my biggest secret—I was the long-lost daughter of the powerful Moore family in Dreslane.
He swore he'd help me reunite with them.
But the night before I met them, the Moore family made a grand declaration—they'd already found their missing daughter. A ceremony was set.
I rushed there, heart pounding, only to see Charlie standing beside his childhood friend, Raine. She was being introduced as the Moore heiress. And somehow, she had the exact same birthmark as me.
Before I could do anything, Charlie locked me in a restroom.
"It's just a name," he said. "You still have me. So why does this matter? Raine's parents died saving me—she never had a real family. For my sake, can't you just let her have this?"
Then, to erase any doubt, to make sure Raine could live as me without fear—Charlie took a knife and carved the birthmark off my body.
The shock. The pain. I lost my three-month-old unborn baby that night.
And as I lay there, blood soaking through my clothes, I finally gave up.