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hands against the passenger-side window, her face a mask of desperation. Her
cene on the pristine driveway I had pai
teering wheel. The elegant, composed matriarch was gone, replac
a sudden, theatrical flood. "How could you be so cruel?" she sobbed. "You're
-betraying loyalty-was a minor offense, a little pothole that could be smoothed over with money and a little tole
eaction, she played her final card.
her voice thick with fake sorrow. "She entrusted you to Brandon!
ips made my grip tighten on the leather-wrapp
boyfriend so perfectly. Annelise had believed he would make a suitable husband. She had entrusted my future to him, expecting an equal partnership. The idea t
p as a shard of glass, and stared dir
, "was for me to have a stable life. Not to be the e
scared her. She tried to pull her hand
ked her hand out just in time, a
ght your son a career," I said coolly through the closin
V8 engine. "Go check your precious family accounts. See for y
clutching her useless platinum ban
hout the Prince family's protection!" s
were just paper tigers in tailored suits. I was the Prez of the most
d stomped on the gas. The rear tires spun violently on the gravel,
the rearview mirror, I saw Judith choking and coughing in t
terstate. My chest was tight, the mention of my mother having s
tinged air and pulled out my encrypted pho
en. The lawyer's letter is locked and loaded for to
ooked at the long, straight stretch of asphalt ahead of me. The d
sped past in the opposite lane
sister, Ethelyn Keller, driving the toy I had unknow
. But it was just a gathering of fools for a final, pointless wa
again, dismissing he
before their desperation turned
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