The Billionaire's Hidden Heiress

Prologue

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.