Chapter 29

~Vaughn~

The mansion hadn’t changed. It still stood, commanding and proud, on 1,500 acres of land in Corvallis City.

It rose out of the hillside like a photograph from a real estate magazine. The stone walls glowed gold beneath the estate lights, ivy crawling up pillars, and the wide terrace still held the iron lanterns I used to jump up and slap as a kid. Even the fountain in the driveway spanned