When Love Became A Larceny

successful. For twenty years, I believed my

x, my pride and joy, the heir

la lay dying in a s

erized my world: "Ethan," she whispered, "the

ueezed, the

an life, turned on me instantly,

ng-lost parent, but as a direct route to my wealth,

eat me to death. I gasped for air, my heart giving out under the crushing wei

as of profound regret, a desperate, yearning wish for anot

e, I jolted awake, alive, younger, surroun

nnocent, was Bella, dropping to one knee, a c

s time, with the bitter truth of twenty years