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All names, characters, locations, organizations, events, and situations are either entirely imagined by the author or used fictitiously. Any similarity to real people, whether living or deceased, or to actual events is purely coincidental.  \nCopyright © 2026 Cassidy Vale  \nAll rights reserved.  \nNo portion of this publication may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, or otherwise—without prior written consent from the author, except for  \nbrief excerpts used in reviews.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nAlso by Cassidy Vale  \n1. Kimberly  \n2. Kimberly  \n3. Kimberly  \n4. Kimberly  \n5. Jackson  \n6. Kimberly  \n7. Kimberly  \n8. Kimberly  \n9. Jackson  \n10. Kimberly  \n11. Jackson  \n12. Kimberly  \n13. Kimberly  \n14. Kimberly  \n15. Jackson  \n16. Kimberly  \n17. Kimberly  \n18. Jackson  \n19. Kimberly  \n20. Jackson  \n21. Kimberly  \n22. Kimberly  \nEpilogue  \nThe End  \nAuthor ’s Note  \nBook 2 Sneak Peek  \nAbout the Author  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAlso  CassiVale  \nREADING ORDER  \n1. Devoted  \n2. Promised  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor the sisters who hold it together when no one's watching. For the ones who count the coins, stretch the leftovers, and still find a way to laugh at  \nthe kitchen table.  \nAnd for every woman who ever walked into a room she didn't belong in and  \nrefused to leave.  \nThis one's yours.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCHAPTER 1  \nKimber  \nHope is expensive. The bill always comes due long before you know whether it was worth paying.  \nThere were two kinds of pain, and I had spent the last year learning to tell them apart. There was the small kind, like the split in the plastic chair outside the consultation room that bit into the back of my thigh every time I moved, and there was the other kind, the one that had no edges I could find with my fingers. So I kept moving in that chair. I kept pressing my leg into the sharp little wound in the plastic, because at least that one I knew where to find.  \nThe waiting area at Cascade Cancer Center was painted a color somebody in an office once decided was soothing, a pale greenish nothing. There was a fish tank in the corner with three fish in it, a fake plastic castle, and a basket of pamphlets with titles like Talking To Your Family and Understanding Your Options. I had read every one of those pamphlets over the past year. They never said the thing I actually needed to know, which was where a person was supposed to find forty thousand dollars by spring.  \nOn the other side of the glass, Penny sat on the exam table swinging her sneakers back and forth like she was nine years old and parked outside the principal’s office. Arms crossed, chin up, that bored, who-cares look she’d been wearing for months, the one that fooled nobody and was built to fool  \nme most of all. She caught me watching and rolled her eyes, and I smiled at her, because that was my job. I was the one who smiled.  \nTwenty minutes earlier the oncologist had said his piece in that gentle voice they must teach in a special class somewhere, the one made to lay the worst news of your life on a cushion so it didn't make a sound when it hit.  \nThe last cycle hadn’t done anything. The tumor hadn’t shrunk, hadn’t slowed, hadn’t so much as blinked. There was another option, he told me, newer, with real promise in the early trials. His eyes were kind when he said it, and the kindness was almost the hardest part. Kind people didn't waste it on situations that were fine.  \nThen he slid a paper to the billing coordinator, and she slid it across the desk to me. I looked at the number printed at the bottom, and everything inside me went quiet and far away. Out of network. Experimental. A figure with a comma sitting in a place my bank account had never once put one.  \nI folded the paper in half and zipped it into my bag. 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