Chapter 730

On the other end of the phone, Rachel cried for what felt like forever before suddenly going quiet. "Yeah… Amelia, you've always got it figured out. You know I can't go back, because I'm not like you. I don't have some powerful family backing me. I don't have the Hales, three overprotective brothers, or someone like Beckett…" "My grandpa got sick and there was no one to take care of him. I had no one behind me. No brothers, no backup. Alicia Nieves used me, threatened me. And those men... they just messed with me! The one guy I finally thought could be different? Turned out he was trash—Eric. That jerk ruined me! I hated him from the start! Hated him so much I wished he was dead…" "Well now he is dead. He's finally gone. So why the hell can't I use whatever he left behind? Why not?!" Rachel's voice cracked as she practically screamed into the phone. "You think everyone's like you? Don't be so dramatic, Amelia. You spent twenty-one years as the Landry family's little princess, had Lucas