REVELATIONS
~KADE POV~
{Playlist suggestion: "Hurt" by Johnny Cash}
Blood money.
The words echoed in my head as I walked away from Chelsea, each step feeling like I was tearing something vital out of my chest.
She had looked at me like I was everything she hated in this world, and maybe I was.
I should have kept walking.
Should have gone home, packed my bags, and transferred to another school like my father wanted. Should have accepted that Chelsea Lynch and I were always meant to be enemies, not... whatever we had been becoming.
Instead, I found myself at the greenhouse.
Our sanctuary. The one place where we had been honest with each other, where the weight of our last names hadn't mattered as much.
I sat on the old wooden bench we had claimed as ours, staring at the dying pla
