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also felt as confused as you when I first met Edric.”
our marriage was also arranged.”
His father and mine were business partners, but here’s the plot twist.”
“Edric was supposed to marry my eldest sister, Céline.”
my sister eloped with Papa’s guard, like in a soap opera, and I had to save the family’s honour by marrying this arrogant Englishman Papa brought to our house.
If they’ve been married for twenty-three years and Ronan is eighteen, then they stayed childless for several years. I wonder why. Edric is the type of man who would make sure his rotten legacy lives on, so I’d have imagined they got married less than a year before Ronan’s birth.
For my whole life, a mother was the only thing I never had. The woman who gave birth to me and Knox doesn’t count; she’s the devil.
She’s the reason I can’t recognise half my feelings and run away from the other half as if they’re on fire.
if you threaten me with that picture again, I now have an ally in Charlotte.”
“How do you think she’ll feel if I tell her you took me there by force? I don’t look compliant in that picture.”
“I’m curious to see how far I can take your fantasy list.”
My darkest secrets are on that list, secrets no one should see, least of all Ronan.
Besides, they were just that — fantasies. Aside from the club, I never thought I would experience them, especially not with someone who doesn’t fit any of my criteria.
For the past week, I’ve been picking her up for school,
She tries to brush past me, ignore me, pretend I don’t exist. When that doesn’t work, she attempts to make me look bad.
Anyway, that’s why I’ve been showing up every day since. She’s starting to slip away by avoiding any alone time with me, probably scared about what I’ll do with her.
Knox and I have been getting close over the weeks, but he’s been distant lately, even during football practice. He also doesn’t like talking about his sister, which I understand considering the sibling relationship. But something tells me he’s trying to hide something else.
For me, shagging was another way to keep people close, to never spend nights alone.
“Don’t come out of nowhere and surprise her. Don’t touch her when she’s not aware of your presence. She has a bad reaction to that.”
“Childhood trauma.” “The stuff with Elsa’s mother?”
he told me about how he and Teal became a part of Ethan Steel’s family and what his wife did to them. I suspect something similar happened to Aiden, but the fucker never talks about
What’s deeper than being kidnapped by a mentally deranged woman, being made to pretend to be her dead son, and being cut by her? Teal and Knox have faded scars on their knees — evidence of those times.
That is the reality of the Van Doren twins. Everyone knows it, Edric included. Just because Ethan Steel became their father doesn’t mean it changed their origins. And yet, Edric agreed to the engagement for a partnership with Ethan.
I made a decision to be around Elsa as little as possible when she’s with Aiden.
I even avoided Kim when she started going out with Xander because they gave off this soulmates vibe
Not only that, but since he cornered me at my house, he’s been acting as if nothing happened.
Despite his Death nickname, he’s loved here.
Teal has been ignoring me since I announced my threesome plans with Claire and her friend.
I spent the entire evening with Knox at their house last night, making sure she didn’t go out for whoever the fuck is on her contacts.
There’s nothing about her and Knox on the internet except the fact that they’re Ethan’s foster children. The whole thing is
suspicious as fuck, and while Knox isn’t any help, there’s another family member who is.
“I think Teal has always had a crush on Agnus.”
“Agnus is manipulative as hell, and I don’t like that he’s important to Dad’s business.
What Elsa doesn’t know is that I need to keep up the façade, need to make everyone believe I don’t give two fucks about Teal
even she needs to know that.
Cole is with Teal in the garden, where he usually reads alone like a creep. What is he doing there with her?
I try not to think of small things, like the fact that Cole was the first one she openly greeted when she first transferred to RES. Or how when we watch games at Aiden’s house, he’s the only one she’ll willingly sit beside, and how she even listens to him when he speaks.
Then I recall the fucking fact that he’s the one who accepted her into his club and that he knew she’d be there that night.
There’s no coincidence with Cole. He plots everything to a T then pretends it’s been a coincidence all along.
“Aiden sent me a text to meet him here.”
“Cole and Teal think they can play everyone, but they didn’t consider us, did they?”
Like the latest gossip about the Astor family. I wonder if Ronan knows about his uncle’s return and where the mighty earl is rumoured to have taken Charlotte the past months.
When I came to RES, he approached me first and talked to me as if we’d known each other our entire lives. We also share certain…tendencies.
While our interactions are easy and raise no alarm, I know Cole always has a purpose up his proper sleeve. He sold me out once, and if he thinks I didn’t figure it out then he doesn’t know who he’s dealing with.
Ronan has Silver glued to him by the shoulder
Silver and I aren’t friends or even close, but we have an arrangement. Why is she doing this now? I didn’t break the code. She did.
Something flashes in his eyes, something like sadism. It vanishes as soon as it appears.
“I told you at the club I’d stay out of your way as long as you stayed out of mine, and what did you do?
Silver is the daughter of Sebastian Queens, the most probable future prime minister. Her mother is a member of parliament who’s smart, beautiful and eloquent. Even her stepmother, Cole’s mother, is a bestselling, genius author who’s known for her intelligent storytelling.
everything an earl’s son should be with.
