Setting the scene…

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Sweet silent songbird
16 year old Lyla has been moving from foster home to foster home until finally she moves in with her aunt who she has never met. Suddenly her boyfriend Jake the only good person in her life dies unexpectedly on a train ride to see her…
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…"Us?" I repeated, my voice barely a whisper. "You mean you." Her jaw tightened. "It was for your own good, Lyla. I was trying to keep you safe." "Safe?" I choked out, the word tasting like ash. "Jake was my safety. He was my anchor. And you… you cut the rope." I looked at her, really looked at her, and saw not the warm, welcoming aunt, but a stranger. A stranger with cold, calculating eyes and a heart as hard as the metal of that toolbox. She had played me, manipulated