The road blurred as I drove with one destination in mind—Jeremy’s. I’d lied to my mother to borrow her car, saying I was heading to Carol’s.”

Everything my mother had said was stuck in my head like a glue that could never leave.

“It’s either Zayne or another Lord” Zayne had told me the same thing. If I didn’t obey the rules, my life would turn out like hers. She thought she could keep me safe and let me date whoever I wanted, but she came to realize that the world she was ...