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Chapter 1

PRESENTSELENE’S POV:“Oh, fuck, no!”The words came out louder than I intended, and I felt heads turning towards me. But I couldn’t look away from the scene unfolding in front of me.Like watching a car crash in slow motion.The elevator doors slid closed with a ping that shouldn’t have sounded as loud as it did to my hypersensitive ears, and I bit back a string of curses resting on the tip of my tongue.I could not believe my luck. It was my first hour of my first day of work at the most prestigious firm in all of Manhattan, and I was already thinking of the best way to format my resignation letter with enough grace to preserve what little dignity I had left.Aurum Holdings wasn’t a job. It was the job. The one people schemed and sold their souls for—especially women.Partly because it opened doors to some of the greatest opportunities Manhattan had to offer but mostly because it meant working under the infamous “hottest, most ruthless bachelor in corporate America,” as the Daily Ne

Chapter 2

PRESENTSELENE’S POV:I turned slowly. I hated the way his voice still had my knees going weak.Grayson had his eyes on me. So completely void of anything humane, I almost had the urge to do something stupid, like maybe slap him, to get rid of that emptiness in his blue eyes.But I held my ground and instead folded my arms over my chest, fixing him with my best glare.He didn’t look the least bit surprised on seeing me. Like I hadn’t been his biggest nightmare for those high school years as well. Like we hadn’t made each other’s lives a living hell.Of course, he didn’t. He must have done his due diligence before hiring me. Unlike me. He must have known I was going to show up today.And, with a sharp twist in my stomach, I realized something else. He must have also known I wouldn’t have bothered to do my research and that he was going to catch me off guard just by existing this close to me again.After all, he spent four years mocking me for this habit of mine. Of never digging deep e

Chapter 3

PASTGRAYSON’S POVThe new girl was no one special.Just another teenager faking indifference, trying to fit in while simultaneously begging to stand out. Just another girl wearing a skin that didn’t really belong to her.Nathan noticed her first. He was observant like that. Ears too attuned to pointless gossip and high school hookups.To him, she was just a target. A vulnerable new admission with no friends and a little too much fire. He tried to convince us to go talk to her and make her a little uncomfortable. Just harmless fun.I wasn’t remotely interested, so I shut it down. Told him to grow up and find something useful to do.Selene Hale might’ve just slipped through the cracks like all the others if she had just kept her head down.But she didn’t. She was smart. Not the kind that hid behind silences, nerdy glasses and too-thick textbooks.She was loud about it, completely unapologetic. She solved problems like she was writing poetry; she debated with Mr. Dorian about the misog

Chapter 4

PAST GRAYSON’S POV:The cafeteria was a whirlwind of sounds when I walked in. Laughter and yells and the occasional thuds of trays hitting the tables echoed around me, and I tried my best to ignore the chaos.I spotted my friends sitting at our usual table near the window, pushed a little farther away from the other tables. Josh had claimed it back in sophomore year, calling it “prime real estate” and insisting it gave off main character energy. We’d let him have that win. Arguing would’ve been pointless.Josh was mid-story, arms flailing around wildly like he was auditioning for a play. He was sitting with his feet up on the table. Nathan threw a grape at an unsuspecting freshman, and I watched as the boy flinched before scurrying away, eyes wide with fear that looked a little too exaggerated.And then there was Theo. He was leaning back in his chair, headphones slung around his neck, a lazy smirk on his face as he listened to Josh.He looked up when he felt me approach. He offered

Chapter 5

PASTSELENE’S POV:I had been at Crescent High for four weeks, and it took me exactly four minutes to figure out the pecking order.It was laughably predictable. It was like someone had copied and pasted the most generic high school cartoons into a single building.First, we had the nerds. Textbook definition of them. Always with a book cracked open in front of them, thick glasses sliding down their noses. They weren’t here to climb any social ladders. They just wanted to survive the system, make it to college, and never look back. In a way, I could’ve fit in with them. But they took one look at me and decided I was the enemy. The reason? I couldn’t understand even if I tried. And I didn’t try. Not really. Next, we had the theater kids and the art freaks—too loud, too dramatic, and always so obnoxiously dressed it made my eyes hurt if I looked at them too long. But at least they had their own strange, glittery little world, and they were thriving in it.The jocks, of course, were ea

Chapter 6

PAST SELENE’S POV:“Selene Hale!” Josh Maddox sing-songed, his voice loud enough to attract the attention of the entire cafeteria.My face burned. I wanted to sink into the floor and never resurface again.Josh’s grin was so huge it looked like his face might split in two. “Finally, we meet.”My heart was beating so fast I couldn't hear anything else over the sound of it.I tried not to blink, keeping my face as impassive as possible.If they thought I was unaffected or maybe even boring, they'd probably leave me alone.Nathan dragged a chair from a nearby table with a screech loud enough to make me flinch. He spun it around and straddled it backwards, arms resting on the backrest“You were hard to catch, you know,” he said.A slew of responses settled on the tip of my tongue, all of them sharper than the next.I swallowed all of them down. Now was not the time to get clever. One wrong move, one misstep, and they’d never let it go. I needed to stay silent. Silence, right now, could b

Chapter 7

PRESENTGRAYSON’S POV:I survived living in a home shrouded in silences. I survived a father who didn’t care whether I was alive or dead as long as I could give him what he wanted. I survived growing up with a legacy that demanded every last drop of my blood.Hell, I clawed my way to the top of the most ruthless markets at the age of twenty-five, becoming the CEO of my own company when everyone around me wanted me gone. I survived being underestimated, challenged, threatened—even betrayed.And then I survived a lot more of the same shit. Yet, none of that could’ve ever prepared me for the storm that was Selene Hale.I saw her coming. Of course, I had. I was the one to make the call. I hand-drafted her contract. Threatened her with the one thing she still cared about just to keep her close. Close enough for her to ruin me should she wish.So, really, I didn’t have anyone to blame but myself.She walked into my building that first day and hadn’t wasted a second before declaring war. Sh

Chapter 8

PRESENTGRAYSON’S POV:I had not expected anyone to be home when I got back. That was mostly the case with my little apartment.It was a small two room apartment with silences almost as thick as my childhood home. This one, though, this home was one of my own making. These silences belonged entirely to me.Moulded in the exact image of the house I was raised with. The one I hated. But apparently not enough to not carry it along with me. It was pathetic, really—how easily the past bled into the present. How the things I hated most, the things I swore to leave behind followed me to every new city I tried to claim.Through years and across cities, the silence and the loneliness had clung to me like a second skin. Like a curse I couldn’t ever get rid of.“Theo?” I called out the moment I swung the main door open and saw the lights in the lounge on. “Josh?”“Just Theo!” Theo’s voice came from the guest room. More accurately, Theo and Josh’s room whenever they were in town. “In here.”I to

Chapter 9

PAST SELENE’S POV:Zoey picked up my call on the second ring. My world could be falling apart but I knew I could always count on her to always be meticulously consistent.“Oh, my God, finally!” Zoey exclaimed, her face popping onto my screen. Her dark almond eyes shone with mischief, her dark hair pulled into her signature bun at the top of her head. But the excitement flickered out of her face when she saw me.“Sel, are you crying?”I sniffled, wiping a stray curl away from my face. Now that I saw myself on the screen, I realized how pathetic I looked. My eyes were puffy and red, mascara smudged streaks of tears dried on my cheek, leaving black lines behind. My nose was red and swollen and my hair was a mess.“No,” I said, my voice cracking helplessly on the word.“Aww, baby,” she cooed, eyes softening. “What happened? Who do you want me to hurt? Because you know I’ll fly there and end the assholes who made you cry.”I huff out a laugh at the fierceness in her voice, suddenly feelin

Chapter 10

PASTGRAYSON’S POV:“Dude!” Nate exclaimed from the bed behind me, tossing his controller aside. It bounced twice before landing on the edge of the mattress.I couldn’t help the grin that spread across my face as I whirled around in my chair to face him.“You clearly cheated,” Nathan said with a roll of his eyes but his smirk gave him away.“Aww come on, Blanchard,” I drawled, stretching back in my chair. “Sore loser isn’t a good look on you.He snorted, opening his mouth to retort but the door was pushed open and both of us froze in our places.Nate, who was laying stomach down on the bed immediately sat up straight, legs tucked underneath him with the reflex of someone who'd been caught doing something illegal. “Hello, Mr Vexley!” He said quickly, voice too loud and cheerful like he was trying to fight the sudden chillness in the air with it.My dad completely ignored him and the chillness returned ten folds until I was drowning in it.Nathan’s gaze darted from the doorway to me, a

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