Chapter 1
My father was a completely smart man. When that happened, I didn't query myself due to the fact the entire technique turned so clean. I simply fell in love together along with her ... due to the fact, my heart diagnosed her proper away. She knew she turned for me.
I sincerely knew her for years. She got here to Richmond Island to stay together along with her grandparents after her dad and mom have been killed in an automobile accident. A beaten 16-year-old seeking to modify to a brand new lifestyle in a brand new place, seeking to parent out how she suits right into an international so exclusive from where she got here from - one hundred-square-mile island lodge off the coast of Illinois were in her grandmother ran a family in Richmond island, an antique own circle of relatives home...I ought to have regarded approximately her, to be exact. As some distance as I understand, our paths did now no longer intersect, however it's miles viable that they did.
Back then, I not often visited the island due to the fact I turned into a twenty-year-old primary who had simply graduated from Harvard Business School, studying the entirety I may want to study the own circle of relatives enterprise. I traveled the sector, taking part in the exhilaration supplied via way of means of worldwide agreements all through the day, socializing in enterprise conferences outdoor of operating hours at night time. I struggled around both. Dating, mistresses, one-night time stands all of us could come and pass without even searching back. Nameless faces and now no longer-too-unique encounters stuffed my nights every time I wished. The wealthy nightlife of huge towns with even larger gamers vying for a bit of cake turned into turning into my each day routine. I embraced each thing of that lifestyle. Wealth, s****l services, a sure movie star born from my name, I accumulated all of it nearly without any effort. For the subsequent 8 years, I had the sector inside my hand as I collected non-public wealth along developing my own circle of relatives coffins. Or so I thought. I didn't but understand what I turned into lacking in life. To her. And then, once I found out precisely who she turned into, and how well-located my future turned into, it turned already too late. She absolutely enchanted me. Besides, I knew she had no concept of who I turned into, no ties to us. Maybe it made her so hot I didn't understand, and I didn't even care, as it didn't play any function to me. I desired her out of a primal want I may want to slightly understand, however still, I wholeheartedly embraced that want due to the fact I may want to do not anything else with it. However, while my mind regained consciousness, it turned into now no longer so clean to simply accept a brand new and unknown fact wherein I felt something for that female apart from unquestionable interest approximately while have been going to f**k and whether or not have been going to at all. At first, I was averse to the concept of it for numerous motives. She turned too young. My mom could in no way approve of our relationship. Others in my international could likely chunk and spit it out, destroying its sweetness. I quickly found out that my coronary heart ached for one of these motives as well. The coronary heart desires what it desires, and I found out that the preference turned into wrapped in a packet named Sarah Ellen Cassidy as some distance as my coronary heart turned into concerned. The death of my father, due to the evil results of cancer. She opened her eyes to me. Money should purchase many matters, however, it can't forestall death while in a while eventually comes. Death is known as a top-notch equalizer. And certainly, it turned into. Wealth is a trivial little element concerning only some more f*****g zeros on an account that makes a few distinctions inside the manner we stay our lives. It doesn't count if you're wealthy or bad whilst you die, due to the fact none of those topics with inside the cease. You depart life simply as you got here into it. You pass by myself and take not anything. There needs to be something else in life son, he instructed me on his death bed. He took my hand and squeezed it as tough as his fragile electricity allowed, to emphasize the significance of his words. He regretted sure matters and desired to percentage what he had found out with me so that I could now no longer make the identical mistakes. The most basic fee my father attempted to train me and my siblings have been the thoughts of my own circle of relatives. The own circle of relatives turned into greater vital than money. Take care first for the own circle of relatives, so wealth will develop Christian, he said. A robust own circle of relatives and her development have been the best matters that intended whatever on the cease of the day. The Richards have lived on this island since they arrived at the untamed American coast. As the eldest son, it turned into my responsibility to ensure the Richards have been there in one hundred years. I did not need whatever exclusive. I knew it the primary time I felt the warmth of her gaze sparkling from the opposite aspect of the room. deep inside. I will marry that lovely, lovely woman from Australia, and she will be mine.