Just like that, he flipped her over and pinned her beneath him.
Outside the door, Kenzie felt like her heart had been ripped to shreds. Even breathing felt lethal.
She had always believed Colton loved her.
Now, she realized it had all been fake. Every so-called moment of love had been an act.
From the day they were born, Kenzie and Kinsey had been switched.
She should have grown up as a rich heiress. Instead, she spent fifteen years scraping by in hardship.
Meanwhile, Kinsey lived fifteen years of luxury on Kenzie’s life.
When the truth finally came out, the Lundbergs took Kenzie back. But Kinsey refused to return to her poor birth family.
The Lunbergs caved. They argued that people weren’t made of stone. They had raised Kinsey for so many years, so how could they just throw her away?
To spare Kinsey’s feelings, they never made Kenzie’s identity public.
“Kenzie,” they told her, “if we announce who you really are, Kinsey will be put in an awkward position. You’ll just have to suffer a little.”
Kenzie thought that going back to her real family would mean more people loving and protecting her.
But heck, that was bullshit.
The Lundbergs had only ever loved one daughter, and that was Kinsey.
It didn’t matter that it was Kenzie who was the real victim. It didn’t matter that she was the biological daughter.
Whenever Kinsey got sick, their mother, Kaitlin, suspected Kenzie had something to do with it.
If Kinsey was bullied at school, Kaitlin blamed Kenzie for not protecting her “younger sister.”
Any time Kinsey had the slightest problem, the one at fault was always Kenzie.
Any time Kinsey had the slightest problem, Kenzie was the one at fault.
That was when Kenzie realized a home like this wasn’t worth going back to.
With that, she packed her bags and planned to return to her foster mother, only to be kidnapped on the roadside.
Colton was taken with her.
They were locked in a basement for an entire week.
The whole time, he took care of her, stayed by her side, kept whispering reassurance.
“Kenzie, don’t be scared. I’m here. I won’t let them hurt you.”
Back then, he was the only light in her darkness.
She buried that love deep inside her until the day he showed up to propose.
‘Finally,’ she thought, ‘everything had turned around.’
But reality smashed her over the head.
It was all fake!
Turns out, even deep love can be performed!