Laura had never felt such a profound mix of anger and determination before. Sarah was her best friend, her sister in all but blood, and she was hurting. Ryan had shattered Sarah's heart, and Laura couldn't stand by and let him get away with it. It was bad enough that he had cheated, but to lie so brazenly, to claim that the woman he'd been with was his cousin? That was a level of deceit that made Laura's blood boil. She knew Sarah would never take such drastic steps herself—Sarah wasn't kind to a fault but she didn't expect Sarah to be herself anytime soon. But Laura? Laura was different. She didn't know the world could be a cruel place, and sometimes, that was Sarah's thing but now the roles were reversed, it took a little cruelty to balance the scales. Ryan had built his image on

