We returned from Maynooth that evening, with Aunt Larissa. My mother had insisted that she would take care of her from now on and would be shifting to Grandpa’s villa with her and Rodden as they had to start living as a family and declared that Rodden and I were their heirs, so everything belonged to us.

Though Rodden had told them that he had his own company to run but would take care of the business along with me. I had denied any inheritance, as I have Nick and he is my everything. If I have him beside me, I don’t want anything else and besides Beth and I...