The Chosen One's Cruel Game

mmed with a different kind of energy. My adoptive father, Mr. Mill

me: Ethan Hayes, Justin Bell, Ryan Stone, Kevin White. And me,

oice, warm and loving, cut throug

life, smiled. A perfect, practiced mask of devot

hat last life. He' d been the perfect husband, th

ice stripped of all warmth. "Now that your fath

tude. A pact. A lottery among the boys to see who would "care for me" whil

. I was a pawn. A well-behaved doll. Then came the final, devastating blow:

. Back in my bedroom, on the ve

would not be a game.

ging clear and steady in the stunned silence. A

of disbelief. Their carefully constructed w

just getti