All I’ve ever wanted was to be my own person. Not Libby’s daughter, left behind. Not Lilah’s older sister, the one who has to shelter the innocent daughter. Not Shane’s daughter, the one who will always clean up the messes. I’ve always been looked at through the lens of someone else’s life, never as me. It’s why I didn’t want the fanfare, the ribbon cutting, the extravagant press most every other business would kill for upon opening, because this place is mine. They couldn’t touch this part of me. Turn it sour. I am not who the world has told me I have to be. And I’m definitely not Ben
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