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At eighteen, my brothers adopted a new sister. I, naive and foolish, was a burden to them, and they grew tired of me. Then my sister was kidn//apped because of me, and they completely broke down. “Why can’t you just die for her!” So, I did what they wanted. I traded myself for my sister. The kidnappers threw me into the sea. I thought I was done for… until I met him. He never thought I was stupid. He treated me like a treasure. For a while, I thought he was different from my brothers. Until one rainy night, six years later, he brought back his first love— the woman who had ruined him and sent him to prison before leaving for another country. The impatience in his eyes hurt more than I expected. If that’s the case, then I would do what my brother always wanted. I would die… for good. When I was eighteen, my brothers adopted a new little sister, Willow Reed. And from then on, they began to grow impatient with the slow, simple-minded me. If Willow ’s drawing got smudged, it had to be my fault. If Willow caught a cold, that was my fault too. Later, because of me, Willow was kidn@pped. My brothers finally broke down and said to me, “Evie Hart, we’re begging you as your brothers. Could you die in Willow’s place?” I tipped my head back, looked at their reddened eyes, and said, “Okay.” So that night, I slipped out in the dark and traded myself to the kidn@ppers in exchange for Willow. And they threw me into the ocean. I thought I would die, but I did not. I met Adrian Calloway. He never minded that I was slow, and he treated me like I was the most precious thing in his world. Once again, I thought he was different from my brothers, right up until a rainy night in the sixth year, when Adrian came back through the storm, carrying a girl in his arms. I heard she was his first love, the one who had gotten him thrown in prison back then and then turned around and gone abroad without looking back. *** With my dull, foolish head, I did not understand what that meant, and I cou
