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“You said yes to a man then found out he’s the little boy you saved forever ago, and that’s why you’re mad, right?”Aisha asks.

She’s not mocking me.She’s trying to make sense of it.

“That’s the gist of it, yeah,” I say.

“I mean, you have every right to be mad that he kept it from you for so long, but also… it’s kind of sweet, isn’t it?”Momo giggles.

Double fuck.I signed a contract.They’re supposed to think my engagement with Connor is real.

I sigh again and rub my head.

“Yeah, maybe.I’m tired.Help me get a little break from him, please?Don’t let him in the apartment.And don’t ask him to deliver things either.He’ll barge in,” I warn.

“What did you do?!”Aisha asks in alarm.

Deciding to rip the bandage off all at once, I turn and call over my shoulder as I stomp to my room.

“I told him we’d move in with him tonight—yes, all three of us—then stole his keys and stranded him at Hannah’s.”

Momo chortles then breaks into full belly laughs.Aisha scoffs and shakes her head.Neither argues when I shut my bedroom door between us.

With the lock secured and my mind a mess, I drop my purse on the nightstand and flop onto the bed.

I don’t know how to even begin processing everything I’ve learned in the last twenty-four hours, and with no stimulation, I expect to run in mental circles, but instead I drop like a stone into deep sleep.

In a few hours, my sisters and I will move to Connor Pen’s townhome.Connor Pen is Heath.I’m marrying the boy I saved at the orphanage, but the marriage isn’t real.

Even with my mind trapped in endless darkness, tears flow down my temples and soak my pillow.

A door slams in my dreams.Drunken yelling lifts the hairs on my nape.My stepdad punches my mom.

Horror descends.

My soul cries out for Connor Pen.Not my boss.Not the boy I saved.But the man who took my innocence and opened my world to the brightest colors.The man who kept me by his side and entrusted me with parts of his business he refused to allow anyone else to touch.The man who worked me to the bone but also ensured my pay covered all my sisters’ needs.

The man I’m going to marry.

The man I’ve secretly lusted over for eight years.The man I refuse to admit I love.

Connor Pen.

Chapter 14

Connor Pen

Hilary turned off her phone.Aisha won’t answer her cell.Momo won’t open the door.

I sit in the hallway leaning against the wall across from their front door in obvious view of the peephole.My ass hurts from sitting on the hard floor and my legs threaten to go numb, but I refuse to budge until they let me in.

I used my ill-gotten key card to enter through the lobby and could use the copy I bribed from the building manager for their apartment, but I’ve made too many mistakes and can’t force myself into Hilary’s place of safety.

My warrior queen can’t abandon me now.I need her.

Not for revenge.Not to protect her.

For me.

Hearing my birth name on Hannah’s lips opened the coffin I’ve spent most of my life burying.