Five Years, A Beautiful Placeholder

y, and I, Ava Monroe, was glowing, a secret smile playing on my

a picture: Liam with another woman, Sophia Chen, whose han

t Sophia and a chilling dismissiveness towards me: "Ava doesn\'t suspect a thi

our five years "a beautiful placeholder," a "five-year arrangement that\'s abou

was pregnant with his child, a child conceived in a

ll bruised from Sophia\'s staged fall an

r the cameras, his other hand stroked her

rmance, didn\'t even hurt anymore; it simply f

wante

d, instinctively knowing Sophia had poisoned me, and Liam, bli

egnant, I learned the truth: Sophia had tried to kill me

re leaving behind the unedited