Shane's long, strong hand closed over Sandy's, gripping it tight.

She didn't react. Not at first.

He'd said so much—each secret hitting her like a thunderclap, one after another,

exploding in her mind.

She just stared at him, eyes shimmering with tears, lost in his words, reliving the

last few years in her head.

The truth was, she really had lost her memory. She'd never told anyone.

It wasn't that she didn't want to come clean, or take time off to repeat a year. But

Florence had threatened her—said she'd already “helped” Sandy get her degree.

Florence told amnesiac Sandy that she'd been a terrible student before the

accident, way behind at their top-tier college.

Sandy still remembered how Florence had sneered, practically poking her in the

chest: “You only came to Brittainia to be my study buddy, just like you promised

Grandma. Now that I've graduated top of the class, I'm heading home. And you're

coming with me.

Don't think you can stay here, Sandy. I paid your hospital bills after the car crash.

You owe me.

Stop poking around. The amnesia? It was because of the accident.

never a good student. You embarrassed the Sheldon family.

for your diploma or you'd never have made it out

family's sake, I'm

can either come home with me and I'll throw you a

here and end up with nothing. No money, no

Sandy. You've always been

in the Sheldon family. Let's be real: you're just not

enough.

your dad—the in-law—will

the Sheldons!”

been trapped—no powerful family, nowhere to

Sandy's whole future would go

anything about that

more classes, more

even wondered if

to do with

never imagined the

a total lie,

much darker. That in

she'd met

tangled up with him,

had a daughter.

once the baby was born, Florence had

abandoned her.

she'd staged the crash, left Sandy with a

amnesia.

all kinds of drugs. Making Sandy

was nothing for her.

was cruel beyond

All because Florence was

would end

Shane and

family, threatening

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