A Decade Mistaken

the fitness area

cles still bulging as he wiped sweat with a towe

d to myself, What

me?" he said and smiled for a moment, but

ee if you got hurt or

on't trust me? I've had

my way," I said and

ch, now that you mention it, Jace's p

, neither of them knew how to hold back, and Jace had ended up

e tank top, revealing his well-defined abs

nd as my gaze lowered, I in

ou hit him

back down, saying, "

t might impact your

lancing at my expression and addin

Want me to show yo

tly taken ab

n us, as we walked along the marble path, lined with

, asking, "Colin, want some mango cakes?" I

I'll get them for

ck then, so this time I'm

exuded a sweet,

efore speaking, "Sandra, you can

rst thing I ate when I came here was th

ll called Jaylynn Holt, livi

the muddy fields cutting grass when a

there, accompanied b

most unbelievable

by chance. I was supposed to be a child from the big city. And the man sta

ing my muddy sneaker

happened so

my father asked, "Sweetie,

odd

Let's go, your mother is waiting for us at home," he took my hand, his broad palm making me

t came next. I saw my mo

that I had brought bad luck by causing my own mother's death just after

ith my mother's funeral, too

th of my mother I had never met, only sixteen-year-old

e very beginning, I might have l