Heat

depths of my violet eyes. The world around me faded into a gr

, clung to Elliott Spears. They s

Spears family, the wealthiest merchant dynasty in the city. I saw i

s the heir to the Spears fortune, playing the p

down on me, the "crude" adopted daughter. And no

extending from his heart. It stretched into the dist

should have s

ost, never about the salary, never about me. He hadn't lost a job-he had lost his daily excuse

hread. Their connection was built on a lie. Whatever he b

ad taken less than a second. To Elliott, it

, stop this childishness. I know you've been trying to g

ght look at a particularl

misunderstand. I am not negotiating with y

mphasis on the w

isted in an

oad, "I have no interest in your money. And I have even l

bitter reminder of my past life's stupidi

dn't comprehend it. The girl who had followed him around with

will regret this! Without the Daniel family

ply gave a small wave over

For the first time in two l

back, I could picture his handsome face,

fection, so certain that my every action was a desperate plea for hi

he might feel something for me othe

e door slam shut, and the crunch

and I was the only one who could reopen them. As long as I was out here, free and unreachable, his path to

nted

d the most chaotic and s

Filthy water trickled down the center of the

f the district, unable to proceed. He sat inside, hi

e filth without a moment's hes

he world-the end of everything worth having. He doesn't realize

I had been cast out, that I was de

arrow alley, where a group of ra

low eyes, threadbare clothes. Ordinary

st of them, the one whose