AMIRA I dragged Ruelle further away from the house. I was fuming with rage but at the same time overwhelmed with fear. I hated Valeria and at this moment, I hated my father for bringing her into our lives. How could she do this to me? Who gave her the right to come into my life and ruin it with her ambitions? How dare she and her daughter treat me like the outsider and the thief when they were the ones greedy for what never belonged to them? Tears clouded my eyes, but I fought them back. If I cried then I would need to explain to Ruelle why I was crying and I wasn’t ready to tell her about it yet, at least not until I had made my decision on what I wanted to do. I felt Ruelle try to probe through my thoughts and quickly put a shield on my mind link, blocking everyone else from reaching

