Severed Ties

"What are you saying, Dad?" Gemma froze, shocked. She hadn't expected Richard's anger to shift onto her, let alone that he would demand she leave the family.

She had lived as a Langdon for so long. Everyone knew her as the Langdon family's daughter. Even if she was adopted, she had been the only child in the family for years, as if she were their biological daughter.

And now, he was telling her to