My dad angrily pushed me off the cruise ship into the ocean when he found out that my grandfather had left his entire $500 million estate to me in his will. My mother was laughing at the time. They thought I couldn’t swim—but they were wrong. When they arrived home, they began celebrating, only to be shocked to find so many strangers in the house.
Chapter 1: The False Dawn I never imagined that the exact moment my entire reality fractured would be disguised as a breathtaking sunrise. It was an early Tuesday morning, and the Atlantic Ocean was stretching long, shimmering veins of silver across its glass-like surface. The coastal breeze carried that unmistakable, pungent aroma of brine, decaying…
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