Chapter 45. Maria’s Back Story

Fear of the unknown was the greatest. I was shaking on my feet at the blackmail text.

Who was it?

Was it Britney?

Sabrina?

Or was it Lucas toying with me? What if it were the media? I was scared and shaking where I stood. No, this could not be happening, I whispered to myself.

“Compose yourself,” my mother whisper-yelled at me, and I turned to glare at her. This was her fault. She just had to blurt out my secret at any chance she got, and now look at us, in a mess she had created.

“Compose myself? Someone has a recording of our conversation, which is deep and critical, that may cost my life, and you want me to calm down?” I whisper-yelled at her as she glared at me. I was literally shaking to my bones.

Before my mother could say another