His Nemesis, Her Heartbreak
I rushed toward it and pulled the curtains back, but the glass was reinforced and the latch was locked from the outside.
I was on the second or third floor, overlooking a sprawling, manicured garden. Escape wasn't going to be as simple as a climb.
"Yeah, well, tough luck!" Ezra’s voice rose again, dripping with a bitterness I hadn't heard from him before. "She wouldn't have believed it either way! You think she’d just sit there and accept that she’s the lost heiress to the Whitmore empire? That her 'mother' was actually her real father’s ex-lover who stole her from her cradle out of some twisted, psychotic jealousy!?"
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