Running Barefoot

POV: HAZEL

My mother's cheerful voice echoes in the quiet bedroom, a bright and innocent sound that clashes against the filthy reality surrounding me. The floor drops out from beneath my feet. The room tilts on its axis, spinning in a nauseating blur of expensive furniture and tangled bedsheets. Cole and Cade. My stepbrothers.

The revelation crashes over my head like a tidal wave of ice water. T