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CHAPTER 1

Feeney

There’s nothing quite like going hoo to because you had to mass exodus when your parents suddenly lost their minds Cut Off NoChristmas

I guess you could say I did it to myself, but that’s not entirely true I like to think I have principles, and one of them is that I will not allow er

It’s also not true that I dug rave because I’m clearly not dead, and I didn’t choose to kill the relationship between ht not be super close, the way so schools while theytheir status They e and what I studied—business, of course But still Deep down, they’re good people They were raised the sa to look after me And they do love me and hat’s best for me

At least, I thought so

Until they betrothed er

Betrothed It’s such an archaic term, but I can’t think of a better word to use They really did betroth e to seal soh er between two companies, and I have no idea where they came up with the idea because I don’t even knohat the other company is I don’t want to know I refused to look up the na about the deal I honestly don’t understand much of ent on in their heads because I sat there and listened to about four point eight seconds of it before I flew out of my chair and ran out of the room

I have no doubt they’ll cut me off now

Maybe that’s not a big deal to soton Elizabeth Euphenia Gloria Hardington, or Feeney, because I hate the naainst her; I just never knew her, and right from birth, I seemed to hate the name and any variation of it My mom’s mom was named Euphenia She died a year before I was born, and et the name in there somewhere, so she did

Euphenia is a bit of a o by Feeney It’s easy and non-threatening People can say it, even if they think it’s weird Lucky for e names, especially when parents coive their babies the most creative names ever

After cutting er and a e to so I threw in everything I thought would be worth so, but it wasn’t much Justis stored in dad’s safe, and I hate wearing it anyway, so it’s never around ner purses—ner shoes, two changes of clothes, and the cash I had in my wallet at the time It was only four hundred dollars, sadly That’s a lot to carry around, but it won’t get me far in the real world

I no longer have a working credit card since I can betas it was jointly in his name So was my bank account, so that’s, of course, frozen as well

You knohat sucks? Being hopeless this close to Christeneral

Thank god we live in Florida Pinecrest, of course, so we blend in with all the other well-off families My parents have houses elsewhere too, but they’ve owned this one since before I was born, and it’s the one I call home Or rather, called home As in, past tense

So here I a down the street in my canvas runners, an My car is in my dad’s name too, so I couldn’t take it I literally had to walk out of the subdivision and just keep going I’h and pretend likefro