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Chapter 1 - Prologue

Caius Kane really messed up a little bit three years ago.

Not in his businesses—he never made those kinds of mistakes. Not in one of his ventures that took a wrong turn because of his usual careful approach—he was far too guarded for that to happen.

In fact, it was the sort of mistake that involved an excessive amount of whisky at a company party, a lady whose face he barely remembered, and a morning after where he had left without waiting for her or looking back.

He didn't think about her at all after that. Why would he? Caius Kane didn't do relationships. He didn't do attachments. He created empires, destroyed rivals, and then returned to his empty penthouse which was just as cold as he liked it.

One day after, she was at his office with a child in her arms.

The moment she got there, security stopped her at the entrance. She yelled that Caius Kane was the father, that he was responsible, that she couldn't go on with this anymore.

For this matter, Caius called his lawyers. They compensated her with a nice sum—a payment that made the issue vanish. She signed the papers. There were legal documents that stated she would remain at a distance, maintain silence, and refrain from contacting him ever again.

The child was put into a specific place. An orphanage, probably. Or foster care. Caius didn't inquire about the particulars. He chose not to know.

Problem solved.

He described it to himself as he returned to his meetings, his mergers. to his life that he controlled with great precision

He never thought about the baby.

He never bothered to find out where she was.

He definitely never pictured that two years later, a little girl with matted hair and no shoes would pull on his pants leg in a coffee shop and look down at him with eyes that were exactly the same shade of gray as his own.

But that is precisely what was going to happen.

Moreover, Caius Kane's brilliantly arranged, tightly sealed world was about to be completely turned upside down by three years of fortune, stubbornness, and one very small girl who didn't know the meaning of the word "impossible." 

Chapter One: The Escape

It was three days since the lock on the storeroom door had broken...

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