Chapter 1 - The Fortress
I did not call him.
I did not send a letter.
I spent the next seven months building a fortress around my heart and my unborn children.
When my twins, Leo and Clara, were born in a quiet hospital in upstate New York, Nathan was three hundred miles away.
He was giving a press conference about his luxury hotel chain’s declining revenue.
I was holding the two best things that ever came from our marriage.
Over the next four years, I transformed Rosewood House.
What started as a job became an empire.
I bought out the retiring owner, modernized the historic property, and turned it into the most exclusive boutique retreat in the state.
My name wasn't in the press. I stayed invisible.
But my children lacked nothing.
And Nathan? He had spent millions trying to find me.
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Private investigators. Lawyers.
Nothing worked, because I hadn't taken a single cent of his money.
