When the car pulled up in front of the enormous Main Mansion that spread for acres beyond, with the sunset directly behind it, adding an orange glow to the exterior, Luisa Ortega felt her anxiety reached its peak.
She nervously licked her bottom lip, squirming in her seat as her heart pounded rapidly. Throughout her long friendship with Dina Choi, she rarely met her parents. She remembered the majority of their teenage years was spent in the Ortega Mansion, and not in Dina Choi's house. She was not sure why, but as a young girl, she was too terrified to enter this place.
Seeing it now, she was confused about her fears. This place was as majestic as a grand castle, resembling the Buckingham Palace in Europe. Windows that stretched for miles, heavily protective gates, lush trees lining t
