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u think...you have the right to break up with Theron? The marria

y sister stood beside me, her eyes filled with

thout mincing words. To them, my only job was to get married to Theron

ck. I didn't have all A's during high school and college, and I most definitely didn't have the brains to get into

amily package. Maybe that was why I had chased after Theron religiously. The news of the marriage had at least made me fee

ched and unclen

me a better person by my sister's standards. Trying to fit me into a box that wasn't mine.

his is my marriage with Theron we are tal

get married to Theron, she wouldn't have been stup

voice shook. "You always do this. You treat me like I'm an outsider instead of your daughter. Even at this time, you are

as that was flowing through my veins was ruining me. By tomorrow, I would

much? I never asked to be given birth to...you could have just dump

ps. He had never slapped me before, no matter how much he'd been angry.

ncompetence. After all, I'd lost the only thing that kept me important to Hales: the marriage to Theron. Truthfully, somewhere inside me, I knew. That if i

n't let him finish, I turned up the stairs and

e behind the door as she knoc

ng my head on the pillow.

to talk," s

was just a broken girl. The one bullied at high school, the one who went for drawing and art, because I couldn't keep up with business or food nutrition, the one who did not know what went on in my father's company. It had always been like that; I was always the clueless and unse

n't want to be irrelevant. I didn'

, muffled. I shouldn't cry, but I couldn't keep it pent up

ys of the sunlight that spilled into the room. It was morning already, and the sun was up, which meant everyone

light headache that had accompanied me when I woke up earlier. That was th

quiet and empty when

adam Camila, "Wher

morning. They said they would be back

they didn't even know the source. I imagined them begging for Theron to accept me back

irs. Mireya's room door was sligh

to the room. Her table was rig

pieces as I stared at it. The same

. What wa

to it, and I stared at t

id g

pestering me about Aurelia. Your parents are here too, trying to shove her

ed to speak, but the wo

Are you still coming? This is the

't love me. Turns out, he was

parted.

k-" He paused. "Au

eya stared at me, her eyes shifting between m

t back a qui