Sulliv

cracks in the plaster. It was a pointless t

al room was shoved op

chard Sullivan, my stepmother, Eleanor, and my

red, her eyes already rimmed with theatrical red. "I begged Evan t

's way flashed through my mind. I shifted my gaze to the blank w

ed, his temper flaring at my silence. "Did

ing with mock anxiety. "Richard, please, let it go. Chloe's st

me anyway. He cut straight to the chase. "You sho

ing to issue a public statement calling off the engagement. You

lips. I was so furious

I do that?" I a

puffing out with self-righteousness. "And because your little teenage p

lcome a tainted woman into their inner circle? I a

rink was spiked. I woke up the next morning next to a complete stranger, panicked, and ran before I even caught a

o a clinic for a procedure, but Ariane had tipped off TMZ and the local tabloids. Photos of me at the

ue to my health, an abortion would be fatal.

at my absolute lowest, drowning in grief, Richard didn't offer a single word of comfort. Instead, he s

adn't asked if I was okay. Not once. He had only come to

such vicious things to his own flesh and blood? To

head-on. "The Sullivan name? What reputation does this family even have l

hter is only six months younger than me? If anyo

d, his face turning an

mortified, the truth stinging

mselves my family. "If the Parrish family wants to break the en

al security. If this turns into a media circus, I'm

ctly like my mother-usually quiet and aloof, but when backed into a cor

y flight back out of this country!" he spat. With that fin

scrambled to foll

ng figures, a cold, hard

e helpless girl from seven years ago? T

sn't going to let anyone

om

ice suddenly brought