(Jasper's POV)
Today was the best day of my life. No, scratch that. Second best day, the first being the day I married Scarlett.
After my mother’s death, I’d almost forgotten the warmth of a family.
The orphanage provided a roof over my head, food in my belly, clothes on my back. But it couldn't fill the gaping hole in my chest.
Fear of rejection stopped me from reaching out to my estranged father. And after years of stumbling on my own, Virginia had been the only constant in my life.
Once, to me, she had been the closest thing to a family. And after that incident eleven years ago, she became my only family. I worked to provide not for myself, but for us. I took a business major not to become rich, but to give her everything money could provide.
I wanted to protect her from the wor
