Love wasn't real. That was something you had always told yourself. That's why it never bothered you to date guys for their money. You had grown up in poverty and had not been given many chances at a better life. Not until you had gotten a job at a local country club. There you learned that even if you had never gotten the chance to go to college you could still have a chance at not just scraping by but luxury.

You were smart and cunning and you had been able to move to a big city, get a job at a high end spot. That's where you met Aegon. Perhaps your biggest target yet, although when he was more than willing did it really need to sound so sinister?

Aegon told you to quit your job, be his girlfriend and he brought you around the world with him. He was a professional trust fund baby and he brought you into that life. You weren't supposed to fall in love. You never wanted love just a fancy car.

Under all his messy rich kid behavior was a good man who just wanted to be loved even if he didn't know how to be. Maybe the two of you weren't so different.