The Heiress They Left For Dead

g. I cashed it immediately, the crisp bills in my hand f

arney and Debra Jones declared legally dead. The process was expedited by the police report and the

t cash offer, not bothering to negotiate. I didn' t want the memories or the money as much as I wanted the erasure. I packed a

d, where I had been lied to every single day of my life. I felt nothing. No

walked in, holding a small, anonymous envelope. Inside was a file I had compiled on a girl named Stella. The

forged, but untraceable-that would ensure she was adopted by a family I knew from my first life. A family that was cruel, abusive, and would gu

My final act in that dead-end town was to go to the b

perfect face and felt a surge of protectiveness that was fierce and absolute. In my first life, I thought this feeling was for Stella. Now I kne

blanket around her. "I' m going to give you the world. An

gray, struggling town behind. I didn' t look