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I spent my whole life hiding. Not out of shame—but because my face had already taken everything from me. My mother. My safety. My peace. So I buried my beauty under fake freckles and dull colors, abandoned my identity as a heiress, and went to college pretending to be invisible. For two years, it worked. Then I met him. Ethan Quinn—Northwood’s most dangerous name. A man so proud the world bent around him, so admired that girls ruined their lives just for a single glance. He saved me in a bar. He smiled like nothing in this world could touch him. And for the first time in my life, I fell in love. I thought love meant endurance. I thought if I tried harder, stayed quieter, accepted more pain, I could earn a place by his side. I was wrong. I was never his choice. I was his lover’s shield. When I realized the man who held my hand was using me to protect the woman he truly loved, something inside me shattered. And when he offered me up in a game—like an object no one would want anyway—I finally understood. Being ordinary didn’t protect me. It only taught them how easily I could be hurt. So when I saw him again, I stopped hiding. I am Madison Shaw. Heir to the Shaw family. Madison Shaw had learned one hard truth early in life, her face was a magnet for trouble. From a young age, her striking looks made her a magnet for trouble, attracting a constant stream of unwanted attention. By the time she turned eighteen and was ready for college, the lifelong “good girl” had finally had enough. She made a radical decision. Hiring a professional makeup artist, she commissioned a custom “ugly” transformation, a meticulously crafted disguise that effectively concealed her striking beauty beneath layers of artificial plainness. Leaving her identity as the Shaw family heiress behind, she set off for Northwood University alone, determined to build a normal life. For two blissful years, the strategy worked perfectly. Shielded by her plain-Jane persona, Madison enjoyed the
