Sun Valley Shadows

I was supposed to be the girl who made it—the straight-A student from the wrong side of Chelsea who finally secured a seat at the high-society table. But as I stood in the middle of my own engagement party, watching Jackson Rutherford walk out the door to chase his "unstable" ex-girlfriend for the thousandth time, I realized the table was rigged. To the Rutherfords, I was just a middle-class interloper; to Jackson, I was a convenient shadow to his family's gilded drama. I was exhausted, humiliated, and drowning in a life I couldn't afford to keep. But then there’s Liam Forrester. Ten years ago, he was the dangerous boy I protected in the halls of Chelsea Academy—the one whose memory I buried under layers of academic success and professional poise. Now, as my perfect engagement shatters and the elites who once looked down on me begin to circle, the only person standing in the wreckage is the "bad boy" I never truly forgot. I spent years trying to fit into Jackson’s world, but I’m starting to realize that some ghosts are worth chasing, and some bridges are meant to burn.