

This Time I Burn First
by kestrelwynnSynopsis
My husband and my best friend poisoned my champagne at our wedding reception, and I died slowly enough to watch them not look at each other across the room and understand everything. In my last life I let the people I loved talk me out of the one man who ever tried to save me. Then I woke up three years earlier, the exact morning I first walked into the gallery where I would meet both of my killers, with every memory intact and a very specific list. This time I know who pours the wine. This time I will not make the same mistake. This time I am not going to avoid the dangerous man everyone warned me about. I am going to find him first, before their lie ever touches him, because in my previous life I finally understood, too late, that Roan Maddox was the only person who ever told me the truth. They taught me not to trust myself. They are about to learn what a mistake that was. This time I burn first.
- 1
The Toast They Poured for Me
8 min · 2 months ago
- 2
The Morning I Already Buried
7 min · 2 months ago
- 3
The Man They Told Me to Fear
8 min · 2 months ago
- 4
No, Thank You
10 min · 2 months ago
- 5
The Golden Boy Smiles On Schedule
8 min · 2 months ago
- 6
Plan for Not Dying Again
10 min · 2 months ago
- 7
I Pour My Own Glass
9 min · 2 months ago
- 8
Aunt Margot's Hand on My Money
9 min · 2 months ago
- 9
Hiring the Villain
8 min · 2 months ago
- 10
I Burned My Own Map
8 min · 2 months ago
- 11
What Roan Maddox Knows
8 min · 1 month ago
- 12
The Frame Around an Innocent Man
8 min · 1 month ago
- 13
Delphine Tries the Old Trick
9 min · 1 month ago
- 14
He Swapped My Glass
9 min · 1 month ago
- 15
The Sister With a Conscience
9 min · 1 month ago
- 16
Close Enough to Hang Him
9 min · 1 month ago
- 17
He Cannot Watch Me Smile at the Knife
8 min · 1 month ago