Intro. The black car moved slowly down the tree-lined road until the mansion's automatic gates opened, revealing a house so large it looked more like a luxury hotel. It was there that her new life would begin even though everything inside her screamed that she didn't want to be there.
She watched the entrance to the property through the window, her face expressionless, headphones drowning out her mother's excited voice in the front seat. Mom seemed genuinely excited about their recent marriage, their new home, the perfect man who was now part of their lives. But to her, none of that made sense. She had left behind the city where she grew up, her friends, her boyfriend... and now she found herself trapped in a world that wasn't hers.
Roland Ackerman was an influential man, owner of a fortune built on businesses that no one knew how to properly explain. He had a reputation for being ruthless, but with enough charm to mask this with expensive dinners and rehearsed speeches. Now he was his mother's new husband.