Lily's POV

I locked myself in my apartment Sunday and turned off my phone because I couldn't handle calls from Alexander trying to explain or Janet asking if I was okay.

Everything I thought I knew about my life was a lie.

Richard Thompson hadn't been a generous stranger who saw potential in me, he'd been my biological father making amends for eighteen years of cowardice.

The inheritance wasn't a vote of confidence in my abilities, it was guilt money from a man who'd watched me suffer ...