Chapter 5  Shards of broken beer bottles dug deep into my palms and thighs.  The sharp pain shot straight to my brain-yet compared to the agony in my heart, it…

Chapter 4  Hubert’s expression darkened. He gritted his teeth and said, “Fine. You want it big? I’ll make it big for you!”  Without another word, he pulled out his phone…

Chapter 3  Blake was always upright and kind, gentle and attentive to me.  He never once despised the burn scars on my body. Instead, he told me I was an…

  Chapter 2  My small two-bedroom apartment had been turned upside down by his men.  Yet he still found nothing.  “Didn’t you say Lianna was unclogging a sewer? Where is…

Chapter 1  My best friend and I were both heartbroken on the same day, but unlike me, she insisted on dragging me into her twisted version of a “romantic ending”…

  She instinctively clung to Zach’s arm,  <  practically clinging to him.  Rhonda looked at me, a possessive glint in  her eyes, but forced a pathetic expression of  sympathy onto…

leaned over the bed to vomit.  Zach remained oblivious, his tone still  arrogant.  “Don’t drag Ethan’s girlfriend into your  tantrum! They were supposed to meet the  parents to set a…

Chapter 3  く  After a two-second pause, a cold laugh  echoed through the phone.  “Chloe, you really don’t even bother to think  through your lies. You just want me to…

Zach, since I’m calling off the wedding,  there’s no need for me to go.”  My words reignited his fury.  “Do you know how irrational you are being?!  Chloe, I never…

Even though Ethan came from a wealthy  family and acting was just a hobby.  If Kiki mentioned it, he’d explode, accusing  her of not understanding him, of not  supporting his…