No Longer His Convenient Wife
He remembered senior year of high school like it was yesterday, back when her family was just known for working the dirt in the lower valley.
He remembered standing by his father’s custom truck in the school parking lot, senior year, casually offering her a ride home—offering her a ticket into his orbit, an invite to the country club weekend, assuming any girl from the valley would jump at the chance to be seen with a Flectcher.
And what had she done? She’d looked him dead in the eye, said no, and walked away without looking back. Who turned down an invitation from Alcott Fletcher?
And then yesterday on national television, Sebastian Hawthorne—the richest guy in the state—had walked out onto