A Debt for the Next Life

Summary

My father hired a pair of orphaned sisters as bodyguards for my brother and me.

The older one, Stella, was quick, sharp-eyed, and fell for my brother, Liam, the moment she saw him.

That left me with the younger sister, Maya. The one with the silence.

I didn’t want to see her sent back to the group home, back to the bullies and the loneliness, so I accepted her.

She never spoke, so I took her to every top psychiatrist on the East Coast.

I carved out two hours every single day to tell her jokes, to read to her, anything to get a response, even though one never came.