The Billionaire's Heir and the Forgotten Girl

Audrey lives alone with her mother, Chloe, who works night shifts at a convenience store and never speaks of the father Audrey has never met. At school Audrey is invisible, mocked as a "little mute," until a new transfer student named Leo Vance begins tormenting her. Leo complains endlessly about his cold, work-obsessed CEO father, and Audrey, who has no dad of her own, quietly envies him.

When a teacher assigns an essay titled "My Father," Audrey writes about a father with big hands and a big black umbrella who shields his family from every storm. Leo accuses her of stealing his father, pins her against the wall, and calls her a thief. What neither child understands is that Chloe once walked away from the richest man in the city, and that the man who came to collect Leo in the rain may be closer to Audrey than she knows.

A story of two lonely children, an absent father, and a mother who has kept her silence for eight years.