I’m Yours

At a celebratory dinner for their SAT results, Sofia's parents press her and Derek to apply to the same university. But Sofia turns to Julian, the quiet young man holding the family's coats and car keys, and asks where he will apply. Julian, who wears a cheap hearing aid and is mocked by Derek as "the deaf boy," says he wants to go wherever she goes.

Derek sneers, and both families assume Sofia is only acting out of spite, blind to the truth: she has spent years around Derek's estate not for him, but for Julian, the boy who once shielded her and lost his hearing for it. When Derek introduces Eliza White as his girlfriend to humiliate her, Sofia pushes the application materials toward Julian instead.

As Mrs. Hugh moves to have Julian thrown out, Sofia refuses to let him go—and no one yet knows the humble driver's son is New City's long-lost heir.