Dear Fletcher, That Was Your Mom
Piper Hayes · Completed · 6.1k Words
Introduction
The South Campus Arctic Biome is a landmark the Sinclair family funded years ago. It's filled with the rare arctic flowers Mom and Della have always loved. Every single time they visit, they have to go in.
That's when Kiley Croft, the girl Fletcher Waverly grew up with, pulls what she calls "a little prank." While no one's paying attention, she locks the door from the outside panel and pushes the temperature controls to maximum.
The people inside are trapped. They burn to death.
Kiley runs to Fletcher in tears, and instead of calling 911, he pulls her close and tells her:
"Hey. It's okay. It was an accident. This isn't on you."
He doesn't call me until the fire trucks show up.
"Blythe, the biome caught fire. Your mom and your sister are trapped inside."
I spin around.
Della is right next to me, sniffling and complaining about her cold. Mom is passing her tissues.
They're both completely fine.
Then who the hell is in there?
Chapter 1
Blythe's POV
It's fall break, and Mom and my sister Della Sinclair are visiting me at St. Julian's Academy.
The South Campus Arctic Biome is a landmark the Sinclair family funded years ago. It's filled with the rare arctic flowers Mom and Della have always loved. Every single time they visit, they have to go in.
That's when Kiley Croft, the girl Fletcher Waverly grew up with, pulls what she calls "a little prank." While no one's paying attention, she locks the door from the outside panel and pushes the temperature controls to maximum.
The people inside are trapped. They burn to death.
Kiley runs to Fletcher in tears, and instead of calling 911, he pulls her close and tells her:
"Hey. It's okay. It was an accident. This isn't on you."
He doesn't call me until the fire trucks show up.
"Blythe, the biome caught fire. Your mom and your sister are trapped inside."
I spin around.
Della is right next to me, sniffling and complaining about her cold. Mom is passing her tissues.
They're both completely fine.
Then who the hell is in there?
I run three red lights getting back to south campus.
From a distance, I can already see the smoke pouring into the sky.
The Arctic Biome, a multi-million-dollar fully sealed structure, is scorched black along the outer walls, the frame warped from the heat.
Sirens echo across campus. The air reeks of smoke and something worse.
Students are clustered nearby, whispering.
"Fire's out, but the people inside... I don't think they made it."
"I heard the door was locked from outside and the temperature controls went crazy. They were basically cooked alive."
"I saw Fletcher and some girl running from that direction right before it happened."
"She messed with something on the outside panel. Two people are dead. What the hell."
My legs are barely holding me up as I push through the crowd.
Two people. Two real human beings.
Then I see him.
Fletcher Waverly is standing just outside the police tape, white shirt spotless, with Kiley Croft pressed against his chest. The girl he always swore was "just a friend."
"Fletcher, I'm so scared. I swear I didn't mean for this to happen. I had no idea the door would lock like that..." Kiley is sobbing into his chest, tears running down her face.
Fletcher rubs her back, voice low and steady. "You're okay. I've got you. You're safe."
Something cold runs through me.
Two people just died in there. And my boyfriend is standing here comforting the person who killed them.
"Fletcher!" I push toward him, eyes burning. "What happened? Who was in there? How could my mom and my sister possibly be—"
He cuts me off, voice flat. "Blythe. Get it together. You're making a scene."
He steps in front of Kiley. "This isn't Kiley's fault. Your family was messing with equipment they had no business touching and set the whole thing off. Kiley barely touched the outside panel. She had no idea what it would do."
That biome is a fully sealed structure. Once it locks from the outside, there's no way out. Kiley didn't just lock the door. She started a fire. And he's calling that a mistake?
My family funded that building. You really think they didn't know how the equipment worked?
"Do you hear yourself right now?" My voice comes out shaking. "Two people are dead and you're standing here telling me it's their own fault?"
"If they hadn't gone in, none of this would've happened." He says it like it's the most obvious thing in the world, like I'm the unreasonable one. "Kiley is a wreck right now. Can you just, for once, not make everything about you? Or are you not done until you've completely destroyed her?"
The sheer absurdity of it all hits me at once.
This is the man I've spent three years loving. Three years funding.
He's lived off my family's money, used our name and connections to get himself elected student body president.
And now, with two people dead, he's standing here twisting the story to cover for the person who killed them.
The grief in my chest hardens into something else.
I don't think twice. I pull back and slap him across the face with everything I have.
His head snaps sideways. The crowd goes completely silent.
"What the hell is your problem?" He grabs his cheek, staring at me like I've lost my mind.
"That was for them." I can barely steady my voice. "I want the security footage. Right now. I want the police to see exactly what Kiley did out there and decide for themselves whether it was an accident."
I turn and start toward the security office.
"Don't you walk away from me." He grabs my wrist and yanks me back, dropping his voice close to my ear. "I already signed the liability waiver on your behalf. This was an accident, and that's exactly how it's going to stay. You go to the cops, you blow this up, you drag this school through the mud — and I promise you, you will regret it."
Last Chapters
You Might Like 😍
I Found the Babies
"When..." He growled in my ear, "When we will be getting married, I will be your only king, do you get my point? Only one queen, no misters or mistresses. Just me, just you, and yeah, our babies."
I shivered.
Alyssa Reynolds found herself in a situation, while returning home from work, and she had three choices:
Simply walk away and forget that you ever heard the sound of wailing infants.
Call the police and inform them about the innocent wails.
Follow the sounds of the wails and take the matter in your hands, deciding what to do later.
Being a kindhearted soul and a sucker for babies, she found herself choosing the third option, finding the two little lives.
Two little lives that changed her whole life, her love life included. Her life now revolved around the babies as diapers, vomit and shit seemed to surround her.
Just when she thought that now it's just her and the babies, her whole world flipped over and she found herself living under the same roof as the egotistical, obnoxious and hot-as-hell Terence Powers, the business tycoon who was not going to let the woman fend off for herself and the babies alone.
Accidentally His: The Billionaire’s Wife in High Society
Five years later, Freya Myers returns to the city with a pair of exceptionally gifted twins, desperately trying to conceal their existence from the world. But when she interviews for an internship, she unexpectedly encounters Declan Castle—the very same man from years ago—as her interviewer. From then on, Declan Castle becomes a persistent, demonic force haunting her!
Five years ago, a single, desperate mistake changed Freya Myers's life forever. Intending to secure a future with the man of her dreams, she ended up in the wrong room, stealing the 'seed' of the wrong man. That man was Declan Castle—the cold, ruthless, and enigmatic CEO of the world-renowned Castle Group.
Now, Freya has returned to the city as a struggling single mother, hiding a pair of genius twins from the world. When she lands an internship at the Castle Group, she hopes to remain invisible. But fate has other plans. Declan Castle, a man who has remained mysteriously untouched by any woman since that fateful night, instantly senses something familiar about the new designer. He has spent years searching for the woman who 'ruined' him, and now that he has found her, he has no intention of letting her go.
Forced into a high-stakes marriage of convenience with the domineering CEO, Freya must navigate the treacherous waters of high society while desperately guarding her children's true identity. Between a scheming stepmother, jealous socialites, and a series of deadly secrets, the walls are closing in.
What started as a game of cat-and-mouse and a quest for revenge soon ignites into a passion that neither can control. In a world where power is everything and betrayal is a way of life, can Freya protect her heart and her children, or will the relentless Mr. Castle claim everything she’s been trying to hide?
Taming The Hot Billionaire
Eva loses all hope when Alexander announces his engagement to the daughter of a business mogul. For four years, she concentrates on her studies and career, avoiding Alexander at all costs. With his parents hating her with a vengeance, it isn’t a difficult task at all.
So, what will Eva do when Alexander breaks his engagement after four years? What will she do when she needs to live with her best friend in the same building as him? Can she deal with the whirlwind of feelings that seeing Alexander every day unleashes within her? What happens when hidden secrets about her family are unearthed? Will Eva realize why his family is against her? Will she lose hope in Alexander forever?
Read this unique and epic romance to know how Eva tames the possessive, dominant, overprotective, hot, and jealous billionaire with her sweetness.
Underwater: The Silent Luna
It sounded like fate. Like rescue. Like the moment the universe finally chose her.
Even with the suspicion clinging to the proposal, Meadow let herself believe it. She stepped into the marriage blindly, hoping love would fill the quiet spaces of her mute, colourless life.
But the truth comes fast, and cruel.
The Alpha never asked for her. Never wanted her. Luna Amber arranged everything without his consent, driven by selfish motives Meadow couldn’t see until it was too late. What should have been tender and sacred becomes a cage, and Meadow is trapped in a nightmare she can’t wake from.
The Missing Mafia Princess and her CEO Mafia Don
To protect what’s mine
Let Them Kneel
Cast out by her pack. Forgotten by the Lycans.
She lived among humans—quiet, invisible, tucked away in a town no one looked at twice.
But when her first heat comes without warning, everything changes.
Her body ignites. Her instincts scream. And something primal stirs beneath her skin—
summoning a big, bad Alpha who knows exactly how to quench her fire.
When he claims her, it’s ecstasy and ruin.
For the first time, she believes she’s been accepted.
Seen.
Chosen.
Until he leaves her the next morning—
like a secret never to be spoken.
But Kaelani is not what they thought.
Not wolfless. Not weak.
There is something ancient inside her. Something powerful. And it’s waking.
And when it does—
they’ll all remember the girl they tried to erase.
Especially him.
She’ll be the dream he keeps chasing… the one thing that ever made him feel alive.
Because secrets never stay buried.
And neither do dreams.
Death By Breathing
Females are claimed. Controlled. Bred.
Alex swore she would die before becoming any man’s possession.
Fiercely independent and determined to escape the fate forced on women like her, Alex has spent years surviving under the radar. But everything changes when the powerful Vandicoff brothers—three ruthless Alpha rulers—discover she is their true mate.
The moment they claim her, war ignites.
Alex refuses to submit to their bond, their authority, or the dangerous pull between them. She fights every command, every touch, every instinct threatening to drag her under. But the more she resists, the more obsessed the brothers become.
What begins as a battle for control soon sends shockwaves through the entire Alpha world, threatening the Vandicoff empire itself.
Can Alex survive three possessive Alphas without losing herself in the process?
Or will the one thing she craves most—love—become the very thing that destroys her?
Alpha Of Glass And Gold
Four years later, Levi Kingston, the ruthless Alpha who traded his pack for power and built an empire in glass and gold, returns with a proposition that reopens every wound she buried.
A ninety-day marriage contract.
His terms: protect her twins from the enemies his rise created.
Her condition: never fall for him again.
She’s human, or at least that’s what she tells the world. He’s the heir to the city’s hidden packs, a man forged in dominance and secrets. Between them lies a history of rejection, desire, and a bond that refused to die even when they did.
In a world where loyalty is currency and love is leverage, Aurora must decide whether to guard her heart or the truth that could bring Levi Kingston’s entire empire to its knees. proposition that reopens every wound she buried.
Alpha, Billionaire, Strong FL, Fated Mates, Rejected Mates, Secret babies, Twins, A Marriage of Convenience,
Soulbound Mark
Elena is a witch who adores flowers and plants, possessing a gentle kind of magic that is tied to nature. She leads a quiet life with her family—until one day, the peace is shattered. After a ruthless vampire kills her parents to obtain their magic, she barely escapes and is forced to go into hiding.
From that moment on, she lives in constant fear and does all she can to avoid vampires, afraid that her past may catch up with her one day.
However, Elena can’t escape her fate, and it leads her straight into the arms of yet another vampire. Their encounter throws her life into disarray—not only is Ryder her enemy, but he is also her destined soulmate.
