Meanwhile, Elias sat in his room, the phone clutched in his hand, as he stared at the message he had sent to Jace.
'All I need is a private hospital,' he thought. 'Somewhere Viktor can't find my sister even if he's after my life for lying to him,'
The Drago family owned half the city... hospitals, buildings, even the streets. But Jace had agreed to help, despite everything. Elias didn't know why he trusted him all of a sudden. Trusting the same guy who'd shoved him into lockers and called him names for a year.
'I guess it's because I have no one else,' he admitted, his chest aching. School was a blur of isolation, the twins his only real friends, and Gerald a father figure he'd have to leave behind.
He remembered the matching app, the message offering one million to conceive an heir. It had scared him, but desperation lingered. He knew that one million could change everything. He pulled out his phone and opened the app, staring at the profile.
