can be any assistan
e face as she looked through me and shifted h
insurance." She said again irritated, cl
p elsewhere. Have a grea
jo
air as my eyes ran over the
ckwards, but I lost balance and crashed to t
is no way my stepfather sold my mother's
s still very much the same. I had less than two weeks to move. How
d my vision,I dropped the piece of paper on
ips in my life, but this particular
y memories of him. After a while, my mother married Gr
illness. Even before my mother passed away, my stepfather had been
ave up the ghost and was laid to rest. Before my mother died, I had struggled to get
verything and gambled it all away. He was a reckless hedonist and a wasteful person. Since
g the money on his usual frivolities. I also knew that he would pass away
e that was bound to occur, swarming in my mind. I had reached out to sorority
rating. The owner of my house would show up the next morning and
running my hands over my face to wipe the blurriness in my eyes. I threw
in this house?" A voice
ng on the door. "What sort of nonsense is
ted so hard that I thought it would rip out of my chest. After taking a few breaths and p
ed,"my name is Sop
tement, he stretched his hand and brushed me
en asked to quit the
through my confident facade. Prickly, as he stared at me a
my step father had sold o
of my business. Tel
tsteps echoed through the room. I looked in th
lightly tanned skin and broad shoulders. He had his phone on his left hand and was still in
y go
ed futile and I placed my hand over my mouth to comp
is going
my eyes nearly popping out of their sockets as they
arming until he let a short
aid there were no ve
son only ignored my words, looking at me a
e pronounced curtly. "Who might yo
f back in reality. I immediately remember
hout bursting into tears. "But my stepfather sold our house to you without informing me. He
ping my shoulders: some gasped, shaking their heads in sympathy but this man was as stoic
s a sign to continue
een sleeping my years away with the man you eventually sold th
demolish this house so that I can make it into my desired structu
I sai
d anger glinting in his eyes. "I d
g to the workers. They lowered t
lace and the renovate the property I h
e door. I had heard about Mason Blackwood in the news and gossip blogs, but I didn't reckon that he would be as merci
made no impact on him,as he watched his
tears. If the self-made billionaire and founder of Stellar Technologies did not take notic
e depths of my belly. Without further contemplation, I wre
ne, passed down from generation to generation. It is an ancient Estancia, belonging to a line of ancient Spaniards. Grayson Macke
ha
ng the room like a shroud, their gazes baptizing me. Mason Blackwood raised his hand to h
me that this house