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." 

outside for more, when I see a black Jaguar pull up in the 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 for my room and make my

"Everything ok?"

at the sound of his voice, Charles, my new stepfather. My mother married him within twenty-four hours of their meeting in Vegas. They called it a whirlwind romance. That was

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

move? Your mother and I uprooted your life when we fell in love. You had to move and leave your friends. It would make sense if you were not

worry about. I was never close enough with my friends to care that much about being separated from them. Mom and I moved

went through an emotionally unstable teenager phase, and I don't think I will start now. I'm easy.

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