It was my sisters Grecian wedding, so why did I feel so out of place? Maybe because she had always been mums favourite, maybe because dad never laid a finger on her, maybe because she was their biological daughter and I wasn't... There were no maybes about it, they hated me and they just couldn't hide it.
Callie sawyer lost her family In a tragic car crash five years ago, and she still blames herself, no matter who tells her it wasn't her fault. At age eleven she found herself in the care system, and not even two weeks later the sawyer family had fallen in love with her baby blue eyes and taken her away from the god awful place they expected her to call home. Now at sixteen years of age, she felt empty. Stuck at the peril of her adoptive fathers physical, and sexual, abuse she has no place to go, the sawyer family hates her and she knows it.
But on the day she starts at Darnley high school it all changes. She meets maxwell nightingale, and he changes it all. But this isn't the first time they have met, and it could get messy from there. He is her teacher, after all.
As Claire aims to leave her oppressive stepfamily behind, she befriends Zion. Will he be her ticket to freedom or a distraction in achieving her dreams?
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Claire Olsen has had a crush on Zion Petrakis since the first time she laid eyes on him, but he never noticed, instead only having eyes on the school's it girl, Maddie Jennings. Knowing she couldn't compete with Maddie, Claire hid her feelings for Zion, satisfied with admiring him from afar. However, when a series of events led Claire closer to Zion, her feelings for him grew from infatuation to love. And despite fighting hard to keep her feelings contained by distancing herself from Zion, he was determined to show her that he's earned a spot in her life.
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