The car ride to the Reed estate was like going back to a haunted prison you've already escaped from. Every familiar street, every brooding corner, every alley felt like a marker in a prison yard. Cameron sat in the back, his fingers tracing the edge of his phone, silently reciting the word ORCHID continuously in his mind.
He wasn't the same wounded boy that left the house. He now knows things they don't know. He is Cameron Sterling. He had a brother who is a surgeon, a celebrity sister, a brother who commands soldiers and another brother who rules empires. He had a loving and caring mother who never gave up on him and a supportive father who never stopped searching.
And he had the formidable, enigmatic Aaron Blackwood.
The car passed through the big gates. The mansion stood tall and proud in front of him. It hadn't changed. But he had.
