The Unwanted Fiancée Becomes The City's Queen

Outfit's heir, a bond sealed by b

o the freezing pool at our engageme

am pa

her like fragile glass, while I struggled aga

and humiliated before the entire underworld

g a scene, El

e stairs, shattering my knee and my dance career

pirit. She needs to learn she's property, not a partner. Once

urn to its master. He thought he could starv

as w

protector to his mistress,

his ring into

fer to UCLA and enro

g, I was already in New York, standing next to a m

pte

a Car

n't deep, but it was cold enough to

ging to my legs like a wet cement anchor,

rted, rippling su

Li

ed my heart since I was five years old. The man who

dov

exive, desperate relief. He

dn't swim

am pa

nning, the girl who had just shoved me in. She was flailing, screaming a perfo

gainst his chest like she was made

hit me harder than the cold. I stood

zero spreading through my veins. I waded to the edge, d

opped mid-note. Every eye in the Chicago underworld