Except as permitted under the US copyright act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed or transmitted by any form or by any means or stored on a database or retrieval system, without prior written consent of the author. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author’s imagination and are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales or persons living or dead is entirely coincidental. ♥ 1. He was charming, and all charming men believe they’ll become rich, until they turn thirty, realise they’re wrong, and lose all their charm. Luckily I met him before he turned thirty. It was summer. The sun shone in through my window and I woke to the sound of birds singing on the rooftop. It was like I fell asleep in my room and woke up in a Monet painting. Even my pastel blue walls looked like they’d been gently brushed with meaning in the night.
