The world seemed to fade away into a weird, dreamy swirl as Adrain explained everything and told me what he’d learned in the will reading. 

When he was done, I had no freaking idea what to do with myself.

“Take a moment,” he said, his tone strangely reassuring. “It’s a lot, I know.”

Swirling the wine in my glass, I took a moment to process what Adrian had just laid out. The sheer audacity of it left me stunned, the room feeling smaller and my chair feeling as ...