PROLOGUE
When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of the fairy tale happily ever after, when I finally met the man I thought would be my husband and my children’s father. Oh, how wrong I was because he showed his true colors to me.
I am your typical teenage girl, trying to get through the last few weeks of senior year of high school with the knowledge that I’m a part of a pretty wealthy family in our town.
It can be both a blessing and a curse because sometimes I feel like I’m easier to be taken advantage of, as some of my old friends used to make me pay for shit when I knew they had money as well.
The only person who loved me for who I was, not what I had, was my long-time best friend, Noah King. We’ve been friends since he moved here ten years ago. His family isn’t wealthy or anything like that, and just being himself and not caring much made me love him as a friend growing up.
My life has been good lately. What happened was so unexpected, so hurtful, yet it brought me someone so loving, who knows me and loves me so unconditionally.
I was so blind to see the heartbreak until everything slapped me in the face. You realize that money isn’t everything when someone sees you for the person you are.
That’s why I love and always cherish Noah. He comes from a low-income family, but his parents raised him to be respectful of women and everyone around him.
I just didn’t know the universe would bring our worlds together.
