“I came to return my mom’s ring,” a little girl tells a billionaire—but the truth behind it makes him destroy everything his family built

even now. “I will wait as long as you need.”

“I know,” she said. “But waiting isn’t living either.”

He went still.

She looked at the man she had loved at twenty-one and the man now standing before her. They were not the same person. Neither was she. Perhaps that was the only reason they had a chance at all.

“I don’t want to go backward,” Emma said. “I continue reading …