A False Heiress's Guide to Love and Power

“Come on in–did you not notice your sleeve’s torn?” Parrish immediately spotted the loose threads dangling from Alessia’s cuff.

“I snagged it on something by accident.” Alessia didn’t have the heart to admit she’d gotten it caught while sneaking through an alley.

“Go change first. Come back down when you’re done.”

If it had been anyone else, Alessia would have rolled her eyes and walked away. But with Parrish, she could only nod and head upstairs without a word.

As soon as Alessia disappeared into her room, Parrish grabbed Cole by the ear, making him yelp and clutch at Parrish’s hand, face twisting in pain.

“Dad, let go! Ouch, ouch, that hurts!”

“Oh, so you *do* feel pain, huh? I told you to bring Lessie straight home, but what did you do? And what’s with that mess on your head?”

“I think it looks pretty cool, actually.”

Seeing Cole’s smug grin, Parrish flicked him hard on the forehead.

“Is that how a student should look? You want to dye your hair every which way over winter and summer break, fine–but you’d better have it back to normal before school starts tomorrow.”

it! Doing two colors at once is

“Then shave it off.”

face. “Oh, come on, Dad, just let it go.

plan will actually get

class?”

Cole draped an arm companionably over Parrish’s shoulder, standing on tiptoe

you little punk.” Despite the

stern.

Lessie fixes her hair, you better fix

Cole said, thumping

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painful… maybe I’ll talk to your teacher and see if we can

with the stylist. As long as I don’t do it too often, it’s fine.

seemed to put Parrish at ease, at least a

Parrish waved him off, shooing Cole

Jade sprawled across her bed, watching reality TV and laughing her