Chapter 33

• Chapter 33
• Aurora walked into Westwood High the next morning with her head held high, but her heart felt like it was shattering with every step. She gripped her books tightly, knuckles turning white from the pressure. She wore the prettiest smile she could manage one carefully practiced in the mirror a hundred times before leaving homebut inside, she felt hollow.
• Today, she had to be someone else: confident, detached, unaffected. Today, Liam Blackwood was a complete stranger.