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n's apartment that night, I sat under the warm d

word "First Love" written at the top of the page, feeling l

o that suffocating summer three years ago when I had just won th

hand, and my first love, the gentle and clean-cut Manhattan heir Braeden Hod

on-dollar loan shark debt, and underground debt collectors smashed down our d

r while the thugs threatened to chop o

kneeled on the cold floor, begging them to let me cash out m

rejection letter signed in sharp, arrogant

bargaining chip-someone of this characte

ded executive behind the scenes was, only tha

n and vanished from his life like a coward so my f

the burning ache in my eyes and ran my

t Lov

es; it was a dream ripped apart by real

pouring all the despair, struggle, and buried longing from th

phone buzzed on the desk with

d the screen, Addison's furiou

the gossip I just heard

wing a massive tantrum in an executive meeting, and he ha

probably because Ashlynn's fake pregn

t that arrogant bastard Denver said? He called Nova a greedy gold digger who sells out her dreams

my fingers curled tightly around the ph

hat exact sam

y as dirty trash, completely blind to the fact that the designer Nova he loo

ed coat on the paper, a fierce fire roaring in my chest as my pencil flew a