THE THINGS WE DO FOR POWER
{Playlist Suggestions: "Jealousy, Jealousy" by Olivia Rodrigo}
~VALERIE POV~
I sat on the polished wooden floor of the gym, the faint squeak of sneakers and pop music bouncing off the walls, but none of it really reached me. My body was here—ponytail perfect, uniform spotless—but my mind was somewhere else entirely. Somewhere buried in the thousands of glowing screens replaying the same damn video over and over again.
Kade Kingston. My Kade.
Beating the living hell out of Hartland in the middle of 'Venom'.
I had seen the video so many times I could probably describe every punch, every wild flash of anger in his eyes. The comments were what got me. The hashtags: '#ProtectiveBoyfriendGoals.#' '#CrawfordGoldenCouple.' The way people online twisted a moment of
