The Billionaire's Hidden Heiress

Prologue 6 Months Ago Jade Harrington I looked at the letter in front of me. Failed payment for academic semester. I was lost. There was so much I wanted to do in life. I wanted to prove I could make it. But I had failed. Why did everything I touch turn to dust? I was born with a silver spoon. I was given everything I could have dreamed of in life. But then I turned 13 and my world turned upside down. I was still an heiress. But everything was slowly taken from me. Until I was left alone and abandoned at 18. And I had learned the hard lesson of ‘life isn’t easy for the less fortunate’. Now here I was at 21, a year away rom graduating from university. But about to lose everything I had worked so hard to achieve. Where was I going t come with the tuition for this semester? I thought I had the scholarship in the bag. At least a partial one. That was how I had gotten by the last three years. I could manage if I had half the funds… but this time I had nothing. How had they found out? My scholarship had been rejected because I didn’t fit the income requirement. I was outside the acceptable bracket. But who would tell them that I wasn’t. I had 500 dollars to my name and that was part of the tuition money I needed to pay. I still had to figure out rent this month and food. I had two eggs in my refrigerator and one packet of noodles. How was I supposed to decide on buying groceries or paying for rent. I guess I needed a roof over my head more than I needed food… especially in New York City. And I had been extremely lucky to find the little studio apartment. For however long I would be able to afford. Well, that was about all the luck I had had. “What was I going to do?” I asked myself. What was I going to do? I didn’t have any family to turn to. And I couldn’t’ burden my friends. I would have to figure this out on my own. I just hoped I had a roof over my head and more hope than I do now.