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My one to comfort her but she turned fros I expected in life, but that hadn't been one of the that I'd done had affected my mother's life However, she'd helped my father as he had tried to destroy mine

Seeing hi there cold and still in the casket hadn't struckwas too fresh I hadn't had tiive that Even with hiive what he'd done to her She was the center of my world

My mother had been able to see the lack of e At least not anyo I had walked away from this life I'd been born into without one ounce of reo My focus had been on finding Della The wo Della Sloane had become my addiction when I hadn't been available In all her twisted perfection she had made me fall helplessly in love with her A life without her in it seemed pointless I often wondered how people found joy in life without knowing her

With the sudden death of my father, the life I had just washedplaced completely on my shoulders Della had stood beside me quietly from the moment I'd stepped foot back in Rosemary Beach, Florida Her small hand tucked intoA squeeze from her hand would remind me that she was there beside me and I could do this

Except at this moment she wasn't withher here, to ht have wanted to pretend that I didn't exist but I noned everything in her life, including the house she lived in It carandfather had made sure that when my father passed away this would all become mine

Not once hadI needed to know He held it over my head that he controlled my life If I wanted this world, then I had to bend to his will Yet all along it would become mine on my twenty-fifth birthday or in the event offrom this now

I thought about knocking and changedlike a child I was all she had left It was ti on her finger as soon as I could convince her of it I knew Della well enough to know that it wouldn't be easy to get her toI hadn't expected, I wanted the security of knowing that when I came home Della would be there

I started to reach for the doorknob when the door swung open My eyes lifted to see Angelina Greystone standing in the doorway of my parents' house with an innocent smile on her face The evil twinkle in her eye couldn't be masked by her attempt to appear nice I had alet the club that was going to become elina to get the promotion and future I deserved

Whatintoe to a heartless bitch

"We were expecting you Yourroom with some chalad you took her feelings into consideration and didn't bring that girl"

The one thing I did know, despite what the witch had just said, was she knew Della's naht have wanted to pretend like she had never heard of her and didn't know her, but she did She was just being spiteful What I didn't knohy the fk she was at my mother's house

I pushed past her and walked into the house without responding to her I knehereroom was the place my mother alent to be alone She would sit on the white velvet chaise lounge that had once been h the large picture s that lined the room