Ariana Hastings
Age: 17"I have learned to live in silence, to be unseen, unheard, because it was safer that way. But maybe, just maybe, silence isn't survival. Maybe it's time to find my voice."
Leonardo Hastings
Age: 28"Family means sacrifice. I've done things to protect them that i don't regret. But meeting her...makes me wonder what I have truly been protecting."
Marcus Hastings
Age: 26"Numbers, plans, assets they all make sense. People? They are complicated. And she....she's a mystery i didn't know I needed to solve."
Domain Hastings
Age: 23"Strength is all I have ever respected. But watching her fight battles I can't see.....it makes me wonder if I have been blind to what real strength
looks like."Luca Hastings
Age: 21"I can read people like open books, but her pages.....they are guarded, locked away. And now I'm willing to wait, to learn the language she's hidden behind silence."
Kendric Hastings
Age: 19"They all see her silence as a barrier. But to me, it's a language. One I'm learning to hear, even if no one else does."
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Silent Scars
Teen FictionAfter enduring years of neglect and cruelty from her mother and stepfather, Ariana's life changes drastically when tragedy brings her under the guardianship of five brothers she's never met and they never even knew they had a sister. For her brother...