After spending a few hours with my father in his office, going through documents and hearing stories about my mother that I'd never heard before, I decided to go back to campus. I was still technically enrolled in college, even though I'd been thinking about dropping out because I couldn't afford it anymore. Now things had changed. Now I had options.
James wanted me to move into his penthouse apartment, to start living the lifestyle of a wealthy heir, but I told him I needed time to adjust to this new reality. Inheritance was one thing. Finding out my entire life had been shaped by his absence was another. I needed space.
The campus looked the same as it always had. The same buildings, the same students, the same familiar paths I'd walked a thousand times before. But I felt completely di
