“People like you,” he called after me, “can’t even get past the front gate.”
He had no idea who was about to walk back through it.
Chapter 5 — Who Talia Crawford Was
Here is what my husband didn’t know, because I had spent six years making certain he wouldn’t.
I was not an orphan.
I had not clawed my way up from nothing, grateful to be chosen.
I was Talia Crawford — the only child and sole heir of Aldous Crawford, the most powerful financier in the country, and the founder, in my own right and before I ever met Declan, of the North Horizon Private Equity Fund.
I had walked away from all of it for love.
Six years earlier, I told my father I was going to marry a charming, ambitious man named Declan Kingsley, and that I wanted to be loved for myself and not for the Crawford name — so I intended to hide the name entirely, to find out whether a man could love a woman who appeared to have nothing.
My father was furious.