Moonlit Mountain (Caleb and Sarah)

Finding Forever After...

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asthma, my allergy to pollen. It wasn't an accident. It was a deliberate, malicious act. A wave of nausea washed over me. The report confirmed the darkest whispers in my heart; she wanted me gone. She almost succeeded.

The recovered data from my phone was the final nail in the coffin. My own words, spoken as I left the Lake House that day, flashed before my eyes, a cruel

taunt echoing in my mind:"Sorry, looks like Aiden and Ethan chose me again. We'll be moving in together, so... see you around!" The blood drained from my face.

Ethan's reaction was immediate. He slammed the phone onto Hannah, his voice thick with rage."How dare you speak to her like that? Do you think, for one second, we would have even looked at you if it wasn't for Violet?"

Aiden, leaning back against the sofa, his eyes closed, spoke with a chilling calmness."Get rid of her things. And have her family come collect her." His tone left no room for argument.

"Yes, sir," his assistant, Zhang, replied instantly, already directing the movers

as they began hauling Hannah's belongings out of the house.

Hannah crumpled to the floor, her eyes vacant, the fight gone out of her. "No...

don't take my things!" she wailed, scrambling to stop them, clinging to her

possessions as they were unceremoniously dumped outside. She'd only tasted a few days of luxury, a fleeting glimpse into the life she so desperately coveted. And now it was gone.

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Real tears streamed down her face. "It's over... everything's over...

sobbed, the words choked with despair. Her carefully constructed facade finally crumbled. The ambitious girl from a small village, who'd clawed her way to a

prestigious design firm in Los Angeles, had fallen from grace. The past two

months, a dream of stolen happiness, had evaporated. She was Cinderella after

midnight, the magic gone, the ugly truth exposed. And I... I was left with the bitter taste of betrayal, and the chilling realization of just how close I had come to losing everything.

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