“They Tried to Sell My Ranch for My Brother… Assuming I Had No Support. They Didn’t Know the Power I Brought With Me”

breath shook. “When you bought it, I freaked out. Not because I thought you were stealing—I just saw the last thing I’d been hanging on to vanish. And Dad told me it was yours to give me, that you’d do the right thing like you always do.”

“Meaning,” I said quietly, “he expected me to sacrifice again.”

Evan nodded miserably. “And I let him because it continue reading …