*Riaya’s POV*
During the break, I reset—no, I *reclaimed* myself. Everything that reminded me of Angel Dodgery had to go. Every last feeling, every memory, every piece of me that was still clinging to that hopeless hope of him.
And I did it. I wiped it all out. I stripped away Yaya—the girl who was so desperately waiting for him to choose her, to see her. That girl was gone. She had been waiting in vain, hoping for him to wake up one day and realize he couldn’t live without her, that he wanted *her* and no one else. But that dream was buried six feet deep. I made sure of it.
The new me? She was something else. She had walls, a fortress complete with a moat and dragons guarding her heart. Ria wasn’t someone who could be broken. She was confident, cold, calculated—and more fun than Ya
