Chapter 1
“Bang!”
Mona Cle body sł
tell straight from the 88th floor of the hotel. The rush of falling left her feeling weightless and terrified, her
uncontrollably.
In the fading light, she saw two shadowy figures on the rooftop above. Rage ignited in her eyes as she screamed, “Barbara Burton, Teddy Powers, I swear I’ll haunt you both, even if I’m just a ghost!” With that, she reluctantly shut her eyes. Plummeting from the S8th floor, she knew there was no escaping death.
But Mona wasn’t ready to give up like this. At just twenty-four, she was at the peak of her life, and now it was all coming to an end. If she hadn’t walked in on her fiancé and her cousin in bed tonight and gotten shoved off the roof by them, she’d still be convinced she was the luckiest woman in Nathontown, about to marry the guy who loved her most.
It’s so ironic. Teddy, her fiancé, had been her childhood sweetheart. They grew up together and got together officially in college. He treated her like she was made of glass, always looking after her and making sure she didn’t have to lift a finger. He practically kept her on a pedestal.
But tonight, she realized it was all because she was from the Clem family. She had the shares her mom left her and was the apple of her grandparents’ eye.
