I donated bl00d to save my boyfriend after his friends told me he had been in a serious ac:cid:ent. As I was leaving the hospital, I heard someone behind a door say, “I can’t believe she fell for it again.”

humiliation you would tolerate for love.”

I looked toward the adjoining room where my parents were sleeping.

Brendan hadn’t just planned to leave me.

He wanted to break me completely.

“Chloe,” Scarlett whispered nervously before hanging up, “you need to know who helped Brendan organize this nightmare from the very start.”

PART 3

“It was Liam,” Scarlett confessed right before the line went completely dead.

I stared at the hotel wall in disbelief.

Liam was Brendan’s cousin, but he had also been the first person to make me feel welcome