Ashley POV

"We're together," Jayden declared with absolute triumph, speaking as if he were stating the most obvious fact in the world. "We've always been together. Ashley is mine."

His final words scraped raw against my nerves, and his outright lie about us always being together made my blood boil. It felt as though he was invalidating every ounce of emotional agony and internal turmoil I had forced myself to endure over the past few months just to help him recover his memories. It also felt like Jayden was rubbing our relationship in Jared's face- something he had no right to do to anyone, let alone his own brother, who...