The Billion-Dollar Secret

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o the ground, as I opened the door to my boyfriend's bedroom in

him, my voice wavering as

ay from each other and hiding their nude bodi

t in that moment; which person whose betrayal pained me more. "Tha

he door as hard as I could as

to wish him a happy birthday, I wouldn't have known that my boyfriend was sleeping with my stepsister.

voice behind me as he ran downstairs, n

get me to wait, but I pulled

l people?! My stepsister?!" I didn't care that I was raising

ess up with a neutral expression on her face. I searched for a hin

been going on?!"

at right now, Arya. We n

brate your birthday together, I find you with my stepsister, and you can't tell me how long

mere nonchalance in them was the dro

g anything?!" I screa

huge steps back, but Brian held me ba

d? You knew how much I loved him!

just ca

do you think my mother and your fat

tell them to find out,"

way for her again when he caught me and struck m

standing in one spot fo

didn't

in return, and his eyes widened a

p me right after it?" I glanced at Rose and spoke to her in silence, remindin

nd and left before they could see the tears in

important to tell me. Whatever he had to say, he could swallow the wor

d my mother and my stepfather having their usual late-night sips of red wine. I sni

x-boyfriend?"

ve this." I shook my head, sitting beside her and pouring myself a glass of wine as I tried

other saw fit to give me in that moment, causing m

t's it?" I

There's someone better for you out there. Granted, what he did

ak up and say something about it, but he only looked a

barely above a whisper. "You're only reacting this way bec

We just don

e sat beside her father, both of us now sitting opposite each other and

as her father – but my mother. "Ever since you got married to David, and

protested. "Do not ac

wealth and his business. You want to get on her good side because that's

David scolded me

that to my mother, and a part of me regretted it,

he had always wanted; just like always; even if it was something that was supposed to be mine. I was always seco

k off my clothes, heading for

t, and it didn't take my mother over two weeks to get married to

ridiculous, and I started to wonder if my mother had always been

fights before my father died. Was she al

my heart back together and walk back into my bedro

I asked weakly, chan

d, walking into the room. In seconds, Dav

eminded me of high school; I would be crowded by my peers

all thought Brian had told you about it and

n confident enough to look at someone whenever I was in the middle of a confrontation. Some

whoever I want," Rose responded, her demeanor s

a person he was and what kinds of people he likes instead. He fell in love with Rose, and I don't see why we n

dering if she really was the one speaking

to comprehend and accept what they were all

om this union, too, and it would only be selfish for you to

y announced what they were all in there to tell me