Chapter 114
Bella
I stood frozen, my eyes glued to the screen, unable to comprehend the reality that unfolded before me. My name had been Ace's iPad password. I’d cracked it almost by accident, a desperate, wild guess, but nothing could have prepared me for what I found inside. Photos—so many photos—of me. There I was in the school's garden, sitting alone in the cafeteria, my dirty blonde hair tied back in a sleek ponytail. I was always smiling, always unaware, always watched. The realization hit me like a freight train: Ace had taken these pictures. Ace knew me long before I knew him. He had been watching me, following me. He had lied.
My thoughts were a chaotic storm as I tried to piece together this new, unsettling puzzle. My heart pounded in my chest, and my hands trembled as I hel
