Chapter 76

Meadow’s POV

The water was quiet enough for me to hear my own thoughts. Unfortunately.

I pushed off the wall and let the pool swallow me, the weight of the water pressing against my body from all sides. I used to be scared of pools once, scared to the point where I avoided bathtubs like the plague. 

My sister pushed me into our pool when we were eight years old. I couldn’t swim. All Juniper did was watch me flail while she stood over me, giggling. I would’ve drowned had the housekeeper not heard the splashing and the gurgling sounds. 

When my mother found out about it, she was furious. Not at Juniper for pushing me, but at the housekeeper for saving me. She fired her.

“You should’ve let her fucking drown!” She wasn’t even discreet about it. My mother never hid the fact that she hated me.

And Juniper hated me because my mother made sure she did.

The knowledge that someone could watch me drown and do nothing terrifie