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She gave them to someone else knowing exactly what it would do. Accepting how it would forever change Hardin. Impact future generations.
By putting everything in someone else’s name, someone who wasn’t associated with this world, she changed multiple fates.
It’s eat or be eaten in this world, and I suddenly feel like I’ve been handed both. All I was, was a match waiting to be struck. My birthday, the one to adulthood, the spark.
That’s around the time Cole had started helping his father. It’s when things started to shift. Oh my god. This is why Silas couldn’t trace anything. Why would he think to look for something from his dead wife?
Oh my god!
Cole was right. Camellia committed suicide, but it wasn’t out of her own need for escape but to ensure her son was offered one instead. To choose his own life path, make his own choices.
Cole’s mother was giving him a gift, an opportunity she never had. She sacrificed herself to ensure her son had a better future.
Finn, by technicality is both a Casper and, by blood, a Kellet. Neither of those are an issue because he’s also made it clear he wants nothing to do with Hardin. His dreams lay elsewhere.
…That means I’m the sole heir to the Casper name.
Holy shit.
Holy shit.
Holy fucking shit—
Eli had been right. I own everything. Hardin, and the billions it’s worth is mine.
My insides drop to my feet, but I’m too stunned to bend down and pick them up. I can’t do anything because I can’t move.
Camellia had had the last laugh. My eighteenth birthday was the final mark to a plan set years in the making.
“She can’t do this,” Silas seethes, and I’m not sure if he’s talking about me or the dead wife who’d bested him from the grave.
“You were outsmarted, old man,” Cole rages, never missing a chance to refute his father.
“It was her dying wish,” Sarah wisecracks, inserting herself back into the mix. The way she says this is so sure and strong, like it’s her own way of revenge.
In a twisted way, it’s righting another wrong. Camellia asked another survivor of Silas’s to hold on to the one thing that she knew would change everything.
That one ounce of single-mindedness does not bypass me, and I know Sarah sees this too.
Camellia understood that with power comes burden. She offered up her life to save his. She gave Cole the best gift she could think of. What we should all have.
Choice.
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Rory
Hoistingmyselfup,Ihop into the back of the ambulance where Madison’s finishing her checkup. I listen as the technician gives her the all clear. They tell her that other than a bit of soreness and a few bruises along her wrists and ankles, she’s good to go.
The sun has set over the mountain of trees. The breeze is a nice comfort to the craziness of today’s events.
My nose pinches but it’s in fondness. I can’t wait to see what Finn’s reaction to this will be. He’s going to lose it.
Leaning back, I drop my legs out, enjoying the view. And by that, I mean knowing everyone I cared about is okay. Bruised and with more cuts than when we’d arrived with, but alright.
The others, like Silas, were rushed to the hospital by another ambulance. Cole’s rage having no limits. He’d ending up with worse damage than his son who’d been in a car accident.
I found out earlier that it had been Abram who tackled Lorna to the ground after she’d gotten a hold of the gun again. Sgt. Daniels had been the one to knock her out. Using the gun he pistol-whipped her with the handle.
