I’ll never forget the way she looked, so confident and sure of herself. Iwatched her from a distance. She wasn’t ready for me yet. I didn’t approach her and Ididn’t disturb her, but I never once took my eyes off her. Mallory Sullivan is ready tostart her new life. After graduating at the top of her class, she’s landed one of themost coveted internships in the United States. Hard work and determination have gottenher to this moment of living the life she only dreamed of while growing up in fostercare. From the start, I knew that she would be my greatest achievement, so the day I lether go, I set down a path for her. A path to me. She never expected Oz to be thegreatest culmination of those dreams. But sometimes fate determines who you fall in lovewith. Who makes you lose control. Who owns your soul. And then you realize it wasn’tfate at all… I’ve wanted to care for and protect her since the first moment I saw her.I’ve constructed everything in our lives so that at the perfect moment, I could haveher, could give her the life she deserves. The time has come.