The moment that name left his mouth, complete silence filled the room.
Several women stared at him with wide eyes.
Others looked completely stunned.
A few even wondered whether they had heard him correctly.
Ross Oakley?
That Ross Oakley?
The man whose name had once dominated news headlines across the world?
The lottery winner.
The basketball phenomenon.
The internet celebrity.
The famous actor and director.
The man whose life story had become known to hundreds of millions of people.
Everyone had heard of Ross Oakley at some point.
Even if they had never followed his story closely, they still recognized the name.
The problem was that the man sitting before them looked nothing like the Ross Oakley they remembered.
In the old videos and photographs, Ross had possessed an ordinary appearance.
He wasn't ugly.
He wasn't exceptionally handsome either.
He looked like a normal young man.
The current Ross, however, was something else entirely.
