Mio marito mi ha tenuta nascosta alla festa aziendale perché si vergognava del mio vestito economico… poi il suo capo miliardario ha visto la mia collana, si è inginocchiato e ha rivelato un segreto che avevo da 30 anni.

necklace hanging from her neck.

It was shaped like half a sun, handmade decades ago.

Rosa had given it to Elena shortly before she died.

“You were found after a terrible fire thirty years ago,” Rosa had told her weakly from her hospital bed. “You had a burn scar on your collarbone… and this necklace clutched in your tiny hand.”

Those had always been Elena’s only clues about where she came from.

Inside the ballroom, Julian became a completely different man.
He smiled warmly.

Shook hands.

Laughed with powerful executives