Chapter 1
“Arielle Lowell, you’re disgusting!
“You really had those kinds of thoughts about me.”
That familiar voice shattered the silence–my heartbeat was racing, even faster than my mind could catch up.
I stared at Zaiden Lowell, standing right in front of me, alive and handsome as ever. My eyes welled up with tears.
“Say something!”
He flung a white shirt at me, hitting me square in the chest. His face was flushed with rage.
At his feet, the wooden box had fallen open–it was full of things I’d secretly kept about him.
There was no denying it anymore. My feelings had already gone far beyond what was appropriate between an stepfather and his stepdaughter.
But in that moment, I didn’t feel shame. I cried with relief. Finally. I got what I wanted
I had come back to the moment Zaiden, my stepfather, first found out about my feelings.
My body shook uncontrollably. Tears flowed like a flood.
Zaiden noticed something was off.
His anger eased.
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He pointed at the box.
“Burn all of that. Now.”
The last time he said that, I completely lost it. I grabbed his collar and kissed him.
He looked stunned. He ran off and started pulling away from me.
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That kiss–that forbidden, reckless kiss–unleashed everything inside me.
And
And I hated Sonia Yost even more for stealing Zaiden.
It ruined everything and triggered all the tragedies that followed.
So this time, I wiped my face hard, picked up the scattered things, packed them back into the box, and carried it to the backyard.
“Okay. I’ll burn them.”
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