A wealthy heiress discovers that the people closest to her have made room in their lives for another woman—but not for her. Cast aside and forced to beg, she decides she is done pleading and sets out to reclaim what is rightfully hers.
I was actually thinking you'd been good tonight. I was going to help you move tomorrow no matter what and you pull this? Cecily, I haven't let you go without these three years. I've given you money, haven't I? What exactly are you in such a hurry for? So you think I want to come home for the money? Julian found me the year my parents died. I'd lost everything at once. I'd gotten through
the funeral alone and I had nothing left in me. At the lowest point of my life, he showed up like someone sent to save me. His eyes were red when he told me I was in Ashford. Cece, come home with me. Mom and Dad are waiting for you. It's too hard out here. How have you lived like this all these years?
I weighed 78 pounds then. He pulled my starved little body into his arms. His hands shook. His voice was wrecked. I'm sorry. I came too late. I let you suffer all this. I stood there and didn't know what to do with my hands. He was so tall. He carried himself like
someone from another world. When he held me, I felt like I'd get him dirty just by touching So I made him my salvation and went back to Belmont Harbor with him. He didn't take me to the house. He put me in a small place out in Fairholm. There's another daughter at home.