The lost Morrison Heiress
My hand rested on my stomach without thinking, the automatic gesture that had become second nature in the last few weeks, the bump solid and real beneath my palm.
Then I picked it up and opened it.
She wrote that she had lost everything.
The house was gone, sold to cover debts Aiden had accumulated before the collapse. Her social circle had evaporated the way social circles did when the money disappeared, quietly, without explanation, just stopped calling. She was living in a modest flat in a part of the city she would never have visited seven months ago.
She wrote that she knew she had behaved terribly.
That word, terribly, sitting in the middle of the page like it was doing the work of som
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