Chapter 1

Maija

"Mom, where should I put these boxes?" I ask as I walk into the huge entrance of our new home. I have still not come to terms with living in a house big enough to be a small hotel. 

"Just leave them in here, for now, honey." 

driveway behind the moving truck. I have no interest in the car or the person driving it, figuring they must be a friend of my stepfather’s, so instead of gawking, I grab some boxes

"Everything ok?"

Charles, my new stepfather. My mother married him within twenty-four hours of their meeting in Vegas. They called it

left. The movers took care of the larger items," I reply, beaming. Although I had not known him long, I could tell he was a good man and that he truly loved my mother– even if I was skeptical when she came home with a ring on her finger and a new husband when she had left home three days earlier a single woman. I can see why my mother is attracted to him; he was a silver fox, grey all over, muscular with light grey eyes. My mother told me he had a son who was a year older than me; I whispered a silent prayer

we fell in love. You had

and does not see me as just my mother's daughter. He wants to know how I feel about everything, but he really has nothing to worry about. I

me.  I never went through an emotionally unstable teenager phase, and I don't think I will start now. I'm easy. If mom's happy,

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