ARIA

"Your stepbrother?"

The word echoed in my mind, shattering the last pieces of the puzzle. It wasn't bad luck. It wasn't a coincidence that I dated two men who knew each other. It was a family business.

Jason had dated me in high school. He learned my weaknesses. He learned my insecurities and when he couldn't get the money back then... he waited. He sent his brother to finish the job ten years later.

They had passed me between them like a baton in a relay race. They had planned my destruction for a decade.

"He taught me everything I know," Mark added, unaware that he was confessing to...