Elin’s POV：

Lucas’s words struck me like a blade, and before I could gather my breath, Lacey stepped forward from behind him, her hand sweeping through the air. A flurry of photographs scattered toward me like shards of glass.

She had meant to slap them against my face, but I slipped instinctively to the side, and the pictures fluttered down at my feet.

“Elin, you shameless creature—look at this!” she screamed, her voice shrill, her eyes gleaming with tears of rage.

I bent to pick ...