Tearing Me Apart

Dad snarled, pointing at Hayes. “You see what you’re doing? She’s choosing you over her own blood. This ends today, boy. Aria — last chance. Walk out with us or I swear on the Moon Goddess I’ll make this worse for both of you.”

My whole body was shaking. Hayes’s blood was on the floor, my parents were falling apart, and I felt torn in half. But I leaned back into Hayes’s chest, holding his arm ti