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DEMI

I pride myself as being a human shock absorber ever since I married into the Rollins family but nothing prepared me for the words that came out of Ashton's mouth as he gripped my shoulder and stared into my soul outside the villa.

"Are you Camille Branson's daughter?"

My heart rate slows down. My vision swims as I blink at him. Did he just mention my mother's name? Does he know my secret? How? How long has he known? How much does he know?

"W-What?" I stutter with palpable shock.

"WAS CAMILLE BRANSON YOUR MOM, DEMI? PLEASE, ANSWER ME." He persists, shaking my numb body to stir me awake from my entranced gaze.

"Hey, lunch's ready." Ashley calls out to us with a big smile from the porch. In the second it takes Ashton to tear his eyes and hands off me and acknowledge his brother, I realize I had stopped breathing and suck in a greedy chunk of air through my nostrils and into my dry lungs. My heart is thudding violently in my chest with equal parts fear and shock.

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