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I only kne to live poor, so I was basically paralyzed with fear every tilanced at my bank account and my investment portfolio I knew I should be happy, but for some unknown reason, I wasn’t

Through an accident of birth, and because of the father I’d never known, I’d suddenly become one of the richest women in the world I was noealthy and powerful Sinclair

Well, I’d always been a Sinclair, but the wealthy part of it—not so uessed that I was related to the super-rich Sinclairs on the East Coast

Me, my twin sister, Brooke, anddirt poor our entire lives to having more money than God because we’d discovered that our father had been a bigamist My father was a man who had acquired tives and two separate families on opposite coasts

My siblings and I had kind of gotten the bad part of that deal Well, financially, anyway

It’s not that I wasn’t grateful that the East Coast Sinclairs had found our faht us all together as one very large family But our inheritance, which had s ridiculously wealthy, was still so I just wasn’t used to

I’d invested the acy with Evan’s help, and he still assisted h all of my half brothers and my half sister were on the East Coast He’d set up ot dizzy watching it grow And that was pretty le day I felt too inti else

Unlike my brothers, I didn’t much care if theplans like they did

I wish I did Maybe it would be easier if I was constantly busy and planning out my future

The only e in ain, Evan had made that happen I’d picked out a home I’d love to have, like h at a pace I foundReally, it was a lovely house I’don Eli Stone in the o

Glancing at my watch for about the ive me what I wanted, and I could make it hoer, I was going to get stuck in San Diego traffic, and I wouldn’t see my house until it was already dark

“He’s ready for you, Ms Sinclair” The secretary stood up as she spoke

I rose and grabbed my purse I was probably underdressed to be inside the Stone corporate headquarters, but at least I’d been co in my orn jeans, sandals, and a baby-blue top

I nodded at the woman, who opened the enoratekeeper

I e of one of the massive chairs in front of Eli Stone’s desk before I finally looked up at the uy I’d only seen on television or on the cover of a azine in the supermarket

He cleans up good

Most of the tiotten es he pursued If there was an eleer to an activity, thisit

Race-car driving

Big-wave surfing

Skydiving

Extrees

Hang gliding

Rocketry

For God’s sake, the guy had purchased his own rocket cohts out into the Milky Way shortly From what I’d heard, Eli Stone ay ahead in the private space game, so he obviously took that pursuit seriously