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I didn’t answer, only pursed my lips and looked away as the town car parked outside of the Four Seasons in don Philadelphia
Stuart Plight was a total dick I knew hiirls private school, we still led with the boy prep schools in the area He was the captain of the lacrosse team, which says so much about his personality, and I hated him even back then
Unfortunately, the Plight family was rich as all hell, and my father wanted to set hiement with them I was informed that I would ood of the family
I toldBut eventually, I was informed that I would be kicked out of the family, that my inheritance and trust fund would be revoked, and that I could kiss oodbye
So I fell in line, like I always did, because that was expected of me
Because since the moment I was born, ht that the Adamson family was more important than any one person, that our money and our power came before our own happiness, and that ere expected to do whatever we could to increase the family’s status
As much as I despised it all, I didn’t know any other way to live
“Coh,” et this over with” She sounded almost as tired as I felt
The ballroonificent I didn’t knohat event was happening, but simply did as expected and dressed appropriately I had on a dress similar to my mother’s, wore tasteful diaold necklace, wore uncoated through the crowd like a shark in the ocean, shaking hands, waving to other socialite woossip and the niceties I followed her around like a lapdog, because the thought of doing this alone made me want to scream
“Hello, Ash” I turned and saw Stuart standing behind me with a drink in each hand He was tall, square jaw, perfectly grooht, perfectly white teeth His suit was expensive, and he looked like the kind of guy that killed holass of wine?”
He thrust it atdown some roofie swill than have to deal with him consciously
“I guess your fa one arm under my opposite elbow and held my drink up next to my face where I could easily access it
“Oh, of course,” Stuart said “Uncle Barry only retires frolea here: his rich, well-connected uncle’s retirement party