I saved him when he was bleeding on my porch. They framed me, silenced me, and threw me back into the dirt. Then I found out the person trying to destroy me was his own father—who’d been hiding my real name for twenty years. So he walked away from his family’s money. He walked into the middle of their biggest party. And in front of everyone who ever called me trash, he kissed me and said: ‘You saved me once. Now I spend the rest of my life standing with you.
