crunched on the gravel driveway. The cool autumn wind push
or slammed open behind her. The heavy oak smashed against t
nst the masonry. "Chloe!" she called out, her voice dripping with sickeningly
alking. She did
oe's path, blocking her with the confidence of someone who had never been told no. She held up
a token of true love. You know, I almost felt bad for you. Almost." Her smile sharpened into something venomous. "But then I remem
e metal band, the specific cut of the glass face. She le
lmly. "He couldn't even be bothered to buy you something curr
contorted with sudden humiliation an
her off. Amber's head snapped toward the street. Sh
er own right ankle with both hands and threw her upper body backward, slamming into the gravel with practiced preci
trical scream that could have woken the neighbors thre
panic. He rushed to Amber's side and dropped to his knees in the dir
her into his arms, his hands trembling
he-she shoved me! I only came out to say goodbye, and she attack
bitch," he snarled at Chloe. "She came out here to wish you well, and this is how you r
ises in her ear, now kneeling in the dirt, cradling a liar in hi
er voice flat and cold. "You deserve a l
at all. "Look closely, Preston. Really look. If I shoved her, where's the dirt on my hands?
ctly clean palms, then to Amber's dramatically bloodied knees, then back
's lying!" she shrieked, clutching his arm. "She
For the first time, something that looked a
man who had betrayed her and the sister who had orchestrated it all. She lef
down the long driveway
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