Seven Years of Marriage with Jake

Chapter 69

Love Story 6-Chapter 1

The school hunk, Patrick Carroll, was now dating the school belle, Yaritza Hurley.

Patrick was the top-ranked academic genius who always held the number one spot, while Yaritza was the stunning beauty who could rival Helen of Troy.

When their official relationship announcement hit, it sent the entire school into an uproar.

While the whole class buzzed with excitement, I just sat quietly in my seat, immersed in study.

Curious classmates soon gathered around me, asking, "Averie, come on, be honest! When did your brother start dating Yaritza?!"

Patrick was my brother, at least in name.

When I was six years old, my parents' company went bankrupt, forcing them to take the desperate route of jumping to their deaths.

Patrick's father, Dustin Carroll, who had been my father's business partner for many years, took me in. Since then, I have been living with their family as their daughter, Averie Carroll, in name only. "I don't know."

I responded coldly, my face indifferent.

life, Dustin asked me whether Patrick was dating a

family, and sent Yaritza abroad, putting an abrupt

day, he sent some thugs to hit me and

that day vividly, sitting there covered in blood as I looked at him. He sneered arrogantly, his eyes

I hope you'll know what you should

my breath grow rapidly, and a

and couldn't speak, so I had to make a living

other hand, managed to fulfill his dream of getting into Harvard University. Riding the

life was losing his first love. This comment left his wife blushing with embarrassment. Now that given a second chance, I

go

I would live a life

shut, or you'll know

classes, Patrick leaned over from the desk in front of me and whispered

in the top school, but while he had earned his

my back, "She doesn't as smart

number one

same studious person he was in our past lives. Back then, he had focused entirely on dating and

exam papers were left blank, he could not be bothered