Love Me, Keep My Name — The Stolen Place Card

I have never been good at pretending not to notice when someone is manipulating me. When I was 14, a girl in my math class slipped a cheat sheet onto my desk as the teacher walked down our row. Elena, hold this for me, just until the test is over. She expected me to hide it.

Instead, I raised my hand. Miss Carter, Jenna put her cheat sheet on my desk and asked me to keep it for her. No one at school ever asked me to hold something for them again. then lorenzo moretti don of one of new york's oldest families found me and told me i was the

daughter he'd lost 25 years ago he held a dinner to introduce me to the family before i arrived sofia the daughter they had raised hid my place card and took the seat between my i've sat here for 21 years you don't mind do you everyone expected me to smile sit somewhere else and prove i wasn't a threat i put my place card back on the table if this seat means nothing why

did you need mine it wasn't the first time they had missed three of my birthdays for sophia given her the bracelet engraved with my name and turned the rooms promised to me into her private studio they all believed i would tolerate anything for the moretti name their money and their protection The next morning, they abandoned me at the courthouse during my name change appointment because Sophia claimed she couldn't