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‘I wasn’t interested in academia, Dad I wanted to create’ Come back when you’re serious

‘Yes We know’ The only sounds were cutlery scraping china ‘So we let you stand on your own feet and waited for you to co Alere a stubborn little thing’ Wistfulness laced his gruff words ‘This is your ho as you want I hope you see that now’

Eret Love ‘I do, Dad I knoas a disappointment to you I wished I could be like Veronica, but I just couldn’t’

‘Not a disappointment, Didi A puzzle maybe, but never a disappointer, and you held onto it That anger tainted your perception of what faive-and-take with you, was it?’

‘I think I’ how to do that now, Dad’

He raised one bushy grey eyebrow ‘Well, that’s good to hear’ He wasn’t done, she noted as he set his cutlery on his plate and his elbows on the table She just kneas going to—

‘Now,’ he said ‘About this man Veronica spoke about Cameron Black, isn’t it?’

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

CAM took in the view through the reinforced gate designed to keep lesser people out Old money The wealth you inherited and enjoyed and never truly appreciated And there it basked in all its glory in Sydney’s spring sunshine The Jaan Residence

He wasn’t impressed Cam had the assets to build better, and he’d earned every cent of that wealth himself with his own blood, sweat and tears In spite of the low-life he was biologically descended from

He’d done a lot of soul-searching over the past long torturous and lonely week Katrina’s prejudiced perception of others rong, and dangerous The people Caed others by their words and actions, not where they came from

People like Didi

She was s and beautiful, inside and out One of a kind And he wanted her in his life

He sucked in a deep breath The woman he’d come to convince was somewhere behind yonder stone façade