Chapters (66)
- Cover
- Dedication
- Keep Reading
- One
- Two
- Three
- Four
- Five
- Six
- Seven
- Eight
- Nine
- Ten
- Eleven
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- Fourteen
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- Sixteen
- Seventeen
- Eighteen
- Nineteen
- Twenty
- Twenty-One
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- Twenty-Three
- Twenty-Four
- Twenty-Five
- Twenty-Six
- Twenty-Seven
- Twenty-Eight
- Twenty-Nine
- Thirty
- Thirty-One
- Thirty-Two
- Thirty-Three
- Thirty-Four
- Thirty-Five
- Thirty-Six
- Thirty-Seven
- Thirty-Eight
- Thirty-Nine
- Forty
- Forty-One
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- Forty-Three
- Forty-Four
- Forty-Five
- Forty-Six
- Forty-Seven
- Forty-Eight
- Forty-Nine
- Fifty
- Fifty-One
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- Fifty-Seven
- Fifty-Eight
- Fifty-Nine
- Sneak Peek
- Find Me
- Books by Mary Catherine Gebhard
- Acknowledgments
A small smile broke. “I don’t know if I’ve ever heard Lottie du Lac use the f-word.”
“There’s a lot we don’t know about each other.”
I nodded. Yeah.
“I just really wanted my husband to love me. To think of me on our wedding night. And only me.”
I touched my neck. Her scratches still burned. The way Story had come just hours before was fucking tattooed inside me forever.
How I came inside her.
A sick, twisted part of me wished for something I knew would only bring destruction to all of us.
“Are you going to be sleeping with her in this house?” Lottie asked. “People will talk.”
“I know you don’t know me very well, Lottie, but I wouldn’t do that to you. Or her.”
Her shoulders sagged; then her eyes shone again. “But…I’d understand if you need to say goodbye. If…if…tonight wasn’t enough.” More tears fell down her cheek, and she looked like saying the words had almost made her sick.
Music drifted in beneath the cracks in the door, floating around us. Downstairs, the real party was just getting started, my mother’s revenge for forcing such a small wedding.
“I already said my goodbye. From this day on, I’m your husband.”
TO BE CONTINUED
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Stone turrets spiraled toward a darkening sky, disappearing beneath a forest of bouncy tree tops. I took a deep breath, exhaled.
Warden School.
The most elite school in the US, maybe the world. I adjusted my bag’s leather strap over my shoulder. The school was just beyond the trees, but a bunch of hastily drawn signs had been stapled to their trunks.
Keep out.
Off limits.
The man who’d dropped me off refused to take me any further. Dropped me off right on the edge of the grounds, pointed somewhere toward the turrets and drove off before I could even pay him.
Before he’d left, he told me to be sure to avoid the trees and take the path.
“What fucking path?”
I looked up at the sky.
It’s almost night. I was supposed to be at my dorm by three. I pulled out my phone, trying to find the map to the visitors center and tugged on the collar of my shirt, sweat sticky against my skin even as the sun lowered behind bouncy evergreen tree tops.
I slapped my neck. “Fucking mosquitos?”