Love Once Bloomed, Then Withered

By a cruel twist of fate, I ended up sleeping with Evan Prescott, the man engaged to my adopted sister, Sienna Hartwell.

The next morning, Evan looked at me with cold disgust.

"What's done is done. I'll marry you. I'll take responsibility for what happened.

"But Maren Hartwell, don't ever think you can compare to Sienna. That promise we made as kids stopped mattering a long time ago."

Dad tore into me, calling me shameless.

Mom only sighed. "Maren was abducted and spent eight years in the middle of nowhere. It's no surprise she came back with some bad habits.