Chapter 9

Even now, they couldn’t comprehend the depth of their betrayal.

“Caspian,” I said quietly, “Mom was literally driven to her death by Camilla Winters. And you chose Victoria over your own sister. Does it ever cross your mind that Mom might be watching all this

from wherever she is?”

Caspian’s face crumpled like wet paper. He stumbled backward as if physically struck.

“Jesus Christ,” he choked out, clawing at his hair. “What have I become? Who the fuck am I

anymore?”

Dad remained desperate, oblivious to his son’s breakdown.

He grabbed my hand with trembling fingers, his designer stubble now patchy and unkempt.

“Sweetheart, come on. This is just–this is just a rough patch. Every family has them.”

“You’re barely nineteen. How are you going to survive out there alone? You need us, Val. You need

me.”

The mighty Maxwell Dagonet–who once made Fortune 500 CEOs quiver–now practically on his

knees.

“Please, baby girl. One more chance. I’ll sell the Hamptons house. I’ll give to whatever charity you want. Just tell me what to do.”

observed his performance with clinical detachment, like watching

row.

had endured enough. He stepped between us, his Loro

accent more pronounced when irritated. “My granddaughter has made her wishes clear. The

like they’d been tasered.

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the actual fuck?”

was an orphan from Ukraine! We don’t have a

my manicure. “He is, in fact, our

our mother’s biological father–and, incidentally, the controlling

series of expressions, settling finally on absolute

not… you can’t

signal security, the clinic

kicked me out of Juilliard! Everyone’s against me! You have to do something!” Victoria stumbled in, looking like she’d been living in her car. Her Lululemon

at her before his expression transformed into pure disgust.

ass away from me! Didn’t I make it crystal clear

said I was your special Victoria blinked rapidly, mascara smudging

please-” she reached toward him

her hand away like it was

mine, and you tried to cripple my sister. You think I give a

warning, Caspian backhanded her across the face–twice–the sound

her to her knees in front of me.

HER! RIGHT FUCKING

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from the blows, her cashmere sweater torn at the shoulder, the

trust fund disaster.

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