Chapter Twenty
Zurie
Waking up, I was gloriously sore in all the right places. There was a smile on my face, a song in my heart, and I felt that the tides had begun to change in my life. No longer full of angst and regret, I now knew that Cayce didn’t hate me. My life would not be spent wondering what would have been if I had never blackmailed Cayce Duran.
He’d told me several times that I had the power to end the blackmail scheme. And I had begun to believe him. “I have the power!” I shouted as I raised my clenched fists into the air, pounding it.
My cell rang, and I rolled over, hoping it was Cayce. My heart sank as I saw it was Niko instead. Despite how badly I wanted to ignore him, I knew I had to answer the call. So I picked up the phone. “Hello.”
“Zurie, I just wanted to call to
