Prologue / Beginning Author's Note

"You see my love," he says as he sets the needle to be pricking my skin a bit harder, "The only physical pain you'll feel, will be right in the heart." He says as he plunges the needle into my arm.

I feel the liquid rush through my arm to the rest of my body. I try to think about what's happening but before I can think, my body numbs, and I lose consciousness.

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Mikayla Kalia Kernova was your typical seventeen year old girl. Who knew a business trip and a family history could flip her innocent life around. But life isn't fair.