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" 'Fifteen!' I was ahteen,' I said 'We're both precocious Our children will be geniuses ¡¯

" 'Yeah, no doubt of that,' she said 'And they'd have private teachers like I do now, and they'd travel the world ¡¯

" 'We could travel the world with my Aunt Queen,' I said, 'and with Nash, and he would tell us about all the countries ould be visiting ¡¯

"She had the most serene smile 'It would be a dream,' she said 'I've been to Europe -- this last year I went all over with Ryan and Pierce -- Ryan is Pierce's father Ryan is the big lawyer in our lives, though we have a whole fa? Europe I could go again and again and again ¡¯

" 'Oh, think of it, Mona You have your passport already, and I havewith o!¡¯

" 'Your Aunt Queen would never let you steal hed 'I can see she has a ventureso Besides, the family would just come after me ¡¯

" 'Would they really?' I asked 'But why, Mona? You speak of your faiant prison ¡¯

" 'No, Quinn,' she said, 'it's really like a giant garden, but there are garden walls that separate us fro abysiously hate it ¡¯

" 'No, don't cry,' I said I got the box of tissue for her and set it down before her 'I totally can't bear the thought of you shedding one tear and if you do I'll s it, or I'll dry your eyes with these Now tell o to Europe I mean we'd have Aunt Queen as the perfect chaperone ¡¯

" 'Quinn, I'm not just an ordinary Mayfair as I told you I'n¨¦e of the Legacy And the Legacy is soreat fortune that is inherited by a neoeneration ¡¯

" 'How big a fortune?¡¯

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It's in the billions,' she replied 'That's why it could endow Mayfair Medical, and right now the Heiress is Rowan Mayfair But Rowan can't have a child and I've already been named to succeed Rowan ¡¯

" 'I see They're groo you for the day when you have to take over ¡¯

" 'Precisely,' she answered 'That's why they wantwith all ot back from Europe I've listened pretty much I don't knohat it is with et the idea I have to occupy a position of honor, if that doesn't sound too egregious That's why they wanted o to Europe, to be educated and cultured and -- ¡¯