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“Fine, fine I’,” she says standing on her tiptoes and kissing me on the cheek She’s 5’3 and full of fire I tower over at her at 6’5 Hell, we all do Phil is 6’3 and Pop is 6’1 Even Paisleigh is 5’6 She doesn’t seem to mind She’s feisty and thinks that ht

“I will,” I pro my office door behind her

Running the Macfadyen Investment Group hasn’t been easy The first five years, I didn’t turn much of a profit, but these last five years have catapulted ht I’d see My personal net worth is just at the tenevery day, but the business is worth ten tiood and while I do want a woman to share it all with, I don’t want it to be all about that

Back at my desk, I work for another hour and then head out to et my 2014 Aston Martin Vanquish Volante parked, my assistant calls me to tell me that my client can’t make it I usually drive my much more practical Cadillac Escalade, but I like to drive , I head inside Might as well make the most of this trip The Hacienda Bar and Grill is one of the best lunch places in Manhattan, ht as well enjoy itChapter TwoTori BaldwinThe bus ride froest three days, six hours, and twenty minutes of my life But we are here now My sister, Kalera, and our best friends, Narina, Kaylee, and Gwen ates It’s not so I really want to do, butand I’ to be the one to rain on her parade The first day, after dropping my shit at the dorm room, I went out and found a job You can’t live in the most expensive city in the country without a job

What’s a girl with absolutely no experience to do? Lie, of course

I lied my ass off which is how I find myself barely two days later as the lead hostess at the hottest lunch spot in Manhattan I work fro Not bad, plus its summer so I don’t have to worry about class just yet, which is another thing I don’t want to do I barely ot accepted to NYU, but I thinkin Dra to be an actress as well as a wife and mother I want it all I have never told anyone about my dreams of fame I think everyone back home, even my sister, would tell me that I need more realistic dreams Now, I suddenly findto coht at the Luna Luttrell Theatre It’s for aof Roood as I hope I aood by Almont standards which are non-existent, but I can’t think like that

I a to be Juliet I keep repeating that to ain My phone vibrates in hts It’s Kalera I shoot her a quick text, telling her that I’ll call her on my break, and she sends back heart e this part of ative about it It would crush ht for sure my dad would cut it off, but he hasn’t For the last six days, I’ve texted both of my parents, the rock steady John and Annie Baldwin, to tell the They definitely didn’t want us to go and haven’t spoken to us since However, my mom put two hundred dollars into my bank account and did the saht-fisted I wish they’d understand that gettingto be otten married because I want a baby, but wharf life isn’t for me My appointment for the Hope Fertility Clinic isn’t until to but time, but I am still on the fence Do I want to sellable to see the baby I help acy and pregnancy They are going to have to nate me In a small town, it’s hard to keep it intact, but I did it My husband, whoever he is should be the one to get it That was a promise I made myself and him when I was thirteen Sunday school had a weird-ass lesson on abstinence, but that’s not what I took away froainst it with the wrong iveThat peace of mind that I’ve never been with another man Never known another man’s touch, hell not even a kiss It’s all his That’s another thing I’ve never shared with anyone Not out of potential eht now, I a towards the fact that it should at least be so other than a cold medical instrument… I shudder E I don’t even want to think about that right now