Destroy Me Not
Heartbreak Falls #4
Rachel Angel
Destroy Me Not (Heartbreak Falls #4)
Published by Romance On the Go, an Imprint of Sparklesoup
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All characters and storyline is an invention from Rachel Angel/Kailin Gow. Any resemblance to people alive or dead is purely coincidental.
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DEDICATION
This series is dedicated to Fin and Ian, my muses.
SERIES BLURB
With a name like Heartbreak Falls, one didn't expect to find love at the new town I had moved to courtesy of my new stepfamily aka Mom's new husband and his sons.
Something was up with my new rich stepfather, his sons, and what happened to their last stepmother. Something was up with the entire town, which my stepfamily seemed to run. Along with the school where my stepbrothers reigned as cruel princes. All 3 of them were known as The Heartbreakers. Two were twins and my age, and then there was Tristan, the eldest. Gorgeous but god-awful hateful to me. What was up?
I was about to find out...if I lived long enough.
**Heartbreak Falls is a RH Dark Bully Romance and mystery for 18 and up. It is YA/NA and has themes of bullying and rough sex. If that's fine with you, then dig in! Destroy Me Not is book 4 of 5 and contains a cliffhanger.
Author’s Note
Thank you for picking up Destroy Me Not, the fourth book in the Heartbreak Falls Series. This book contains scenes that may be triggers such as bullying and violence.
This is a dark romance and while it takes place in high school, the sexual scenes are between 18+ and above characters.
This is also a Reverse Harem, which means the main female character will have three or more love interests.
Finally, this is a bully romance which means enemy to lover romance. By no means do we promote or advocate bullying of any kind, but seek to prevent it in real life. If anyone is facing bullying in real life, there are resources and help available out there.
Prologue
Haven
Age 5
Father’s Day
When my mother picked me up from kindergarten, she took one look at my tearful face and asked, “What’s wrong, baby?”
I wiped the big drops of tears threatening to roll down my cheeks from my eyes. “Everyone in class!”
“What happened, Haven?” my mother asked.
“They all have fathers they made a Father’s Day card for,” I said.
Mother looked at me with a sad smile, “Oh Haven,” she hugged me. “You still have a father. He’s just not with us in person. He’s in heaven, watching over you and mommy.”
“But everyone else gets to bring home a card for their daddies. I don’t.”
Mother took my hand and said, “Not true. Where’s your teacher?”
I turned around to point my finger at the grey-haired wrinkly-faced woman with a stern permanently unhappy face, sitting in the corner of the class, grading papers.
My mother led me over to her and said, “Hi, Ms. Pierce. I’m Haven’s mother. Why didn’t she get to make a Father’s Day card to take home?”
Ms. Pierce looked surprised at being confronted by my mother. Maybe she thought all parents would just sit tight and accept the way she taught the little kindergarteners since they didn’t know much.
“She, um, said she doesn’t have a father, and…so I didn’t push her to make one,” Ms. Pierce said.
Mother looked at me and frowned. “Haven. Not true.” She looked at Ms. Pierce and said, “Of course she had a father, but he passed away shortly after Haven was born. Haven didn’t get the chance to get to know him, but he was a wonderful man.”
“I’m sure he was,” Ms. Pierce said, suddenly sympathetic.
“So you see, Ms. Pierce, all children have fathers. It’s biological. I’m a psychologist, and I think it’s necessary for every child to participate in this activity…making Father’s Day cards. I’ll make one with Haven right now so she can be like everyone else in class. Okay?” she looked at Ms. Pierce, who wasn’t immune to Mother’s beauty and charm.
“Sure, Ms. Hillshire,” she said. “That’s Haven’s seat, and she has all the supplies in the center of her group.”
“Thank you,” Mother said, telling me to go sit at my desk. She joined me later after she talked to Ms. Pierce a bit more.
I was already drawing a picture of my mother and me on the cardboard paper with a big heart over us. Mom joined me, and she smiled at the kids who were finishing up their cards. “Hi Kids,” Mother said, “I’m Haven’s mommy. Did someone here say something to Haven about her daddy?”
All the kids shook their heads “no,” and one girl with pigtails pointed to a boy and said, “Taylor said Haven doesn’t have a daddy and that’s weird.”
My mother laughed and said, “Well, Taylor, Haven does have a daddy, but he isn’t with us physically now. He went to Heaven. But that doesn’t mean Haven doesn’t have a daddy.”
Taylor nodded and said, “Oh, I didn’t know.” He looked at me and said, “Sorry.”
Mother nodded back and looked at me.
Even at 5 years old, I knew what my mother expected. “That’s okay,” I said. “You didn’t know. You didn’t mean to be mean and make fun of me.”
Taylor looked over at my mother and nodded.
“So, kids,” Mother said. “No one will be making fun of Haven from now on, right?”
All the kids in my group nodded as my mother smiled back at them. Then she looked at me and said, “Haven, you can write your father’s name on the
