The Failed Reunion
Language: en
Three years. Three years since the Blackwoods claimed me as their long-lost son, and all three of my welcome-home galas had ended in disaster. The first year, I was publicly accused of stealing a watch, becoming the laughingstock of the city’s elite. The second year, I was shoved into the swimming pool and left to drown, battling a fever that kept me unconscious for three days straight. I nearly died. The third year, a forged paternity test was thrown in my face, and my mother, Mrs. Blackwood, announced she was disowning me on the spot. And every single year, the fiasco ended the same way:…