The Billionaire's Secret Heir: A Mother's Vow

pen up! I know

door of the condemned Brooklyn apartment, b

ook, and the red crayon slipped from her fingers, snapping in half on the floorboards. Tears welled in

this forced her eyes open. A hundred-and-four-degree feve

t be scared.

and lunged across the room. She pulled her frail daughter behind her back just as her vision went black at

as

a shower of peeling plaster. Freezing rain and wind howled into the cramped room as Caiden Robles

onto the mother and daug

y's payday, isn't it? Where's the money?

y drinking glass in the room shattered against the floorboards. A jagged shard

dless lip until it

to Clemmy's pneumonia inhalers! There i

Farrah spread her arms wide, shielding h

wisted with fury. He lunged forward, grabbed Farrah

ith a sickening thud. Stars burst across her vision, and for a moment the room went dark at the edges-but she did not

Don't hi

r stepped in front of her fallen mother and spread her thin arms wide. Tears spilled d

astard, we don't even know who your father is, an

grabbed the back collar of Clemmy's frayed s

floor. The tight wool choked her throat, t

gged herself forward. Her bloody finger

her aside. Carrying the thrashing toddler in one hand, he strode over to the broken eighth-floor window

r I let go and send h

plintered wood, leaving bloody streaks

er go! I'll borrow it! I'

llar. A dark green jade pendant carved with dragons

d. "Imperial green jade! So yo

he cord snapped, but the jade stayed whole. Clemmy reached out to grab

ght down into the pitch-black

with a blinding dark-gold light shaped like a coiling dragon