The journalist goes on to boast about Ava’s successful first album, which shot her to stardom and won Album of the Year. It was an album I helped cowrite, although the public doesn’t know since my name was never listed in the production credits. The dull pain in my chest returns, all thanks to the invisible dagger Ava embedded in my back a year ago. “Everything okay?” I look up and find myself pinned in place by a pair of rich brown eyes. The color and deep undertones might be warm and welcoming, but the man they belong to is anything but. After working for Rafael Lopez as his son’s live-in
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