Chapter 3

“Gina, your dorm at school has gone up in flames, Michael stated as they drove.

Gina’s eyes narrowed a bit. “Alright, I’ll head back and check it out” Exiting the car, she made her way on foot.

Her phone vibrated with a text from an unknown number. [Where the hell have you vanished to? Get your ass back to

home, now!].

Gina scoffed and blocked the number. Really? Changing numbers to harass me? What the fuck are they thinking?” she thought.

She had made up her mind to sever ties with the Miller family and wasn’t about to let them pull her back in.

When the Millers first found her, Gina was on a mountain, gathering medicinal herbs, covered in dirt and sweat.

They mistook her for someone foraging for wild vegetables, their eyes laden with barely concealed disdain.

the

They were momentarily surprised to hear Gina had aced her college entrance exam and secured a spot at Trowell University. However, they quickly diminished her achievement, thinking she was nothing more than a bookworm, lacking grace and talents of Olivia, who had been shoehorned into Trowell’s art program through connections and hefty sums.

Gina rarely stayed with the Miller family. They rationalized it by saying living in the dorm was more convenient, saving her the trouble of commuting. Meanwhile, they bent over backward driving Olivia, a fellow Trowell student, around.

But Gina seldom spent her time at school. To her, college was meaningless; she only needed an innocuous front. Yet, this became Olivia’s ammunition to slander her, accusing Gina of being a dropout, always skipping class, and goofing off God knows where.

Regardless of how much Gina tried to set the record straight, the Miller family wouldn’t have a bar of it.

What could

time laying eyes

about dropping out before the school shows you the door. We can’t afford that kind of

the top student, paying her way through

lessons despite the fortunes spent, failing to grasp even the basics after a year, was showered with praise.

chuckling at her folly. ‘I should’ve seen through this bullshit a long time ago, she thought.

short walk later, a BMW rolled to a slow stop beside

to school. Blocking her path here was spot on. She has even blocked all our

he demanded, voice dripping with menace. “Come home and kneel, apologize

him a look reserved for lunatics. “Are you dreaming?”

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Chapter 3

momentarily thrown, snapped back, “What’s this about dreaming? Are you ignoring me? Get back

talking crap?”

was boiling with anger, thinking, ‘Did she hit her head? Used to be as quiet as a mouse, barely uttering a word.

out of the

One word to the principal from us, and

Gina thought, her inner voice laced

asked, voice cold and lips curled into

fumed. “Forging Dad’s signature, creating a fake will. That alone deserves more

only return home when you call. I don’t even have the keys, let alone access to Dad’s

“Who knows what

to the familiar outcome. Never mind, my brothers will never suspect

no more words were necessary, Gina turned to leave.

James shouted, determined to drag Gina back home today.

grabbed her arm, but Gina’s icy gaze made him flinch, thinking of Liam still in

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