back, her gaze sharpening as she s

blurred her senses. But the roaring helicopters behind him, the steady gaze in hi

nd, which meant... the man

Katherine replied, "I think you'

struggled daily against the sea just to survive. The Warrens had spoken of them with thin

arrative. The fabric of his suit was clearly custom-made

ary-grade helicopters stood poised, ready to

aligned with the life she

xtended a paternity test report to her. "I haven't mistaken

eeze, her gaze dropping t

taggering 99.99% genetic match with Laurence Smi

echoed in her mind, stirr

on. During that trip, she suffered an accident and went into premature labor. You were born early and immediately taken in

very of their real daughter, and the coincidence of her being lost in t

aw your photograph, we knew it was you. You bear a

d Village had lost their own child at birth. Broken by grief, they had

urse mistakenly switched the identification tags of Katherine and another i

n first-taken from her real family. Then, through hu

onged to one of Vroiksey's four wealthiest and most powerful clans, a dynasty so formidab

e slowly, her eyes drifting once more towa

ought all this..

life, she felt the unsettl

Roger and Ariella had treated her with indifference at best, resentment at worst, as though her existence were an i

inquired, "Did you really need this

flickering in his eyes. "I bought them just bef

en nodded faintly. "So... you just happen

doubt. "I received a message from Mom and Dad instructing me to come and bring you back. I bo

ver a billion dollars. The Smith family even intended to extend an invitation t

the Warrens, Kathe

t deserve

just go," she said, her

rd the hillside villa, a shadow of doubt creeping int

ned away, walking decisively

ached the door

e was

m amber lights illuminated his sculpted features. His long legs occupied most o

ught. Stefan White. W