At 3 a.m., my stepmother and stepsisters stole my credit card and spent $100,000 on a luxury trip—returning home smug and unaware the card they used wasn’t what they thought it was.

is not merely his mistress, though I suspect by now she will have made herself something more permanent. They are connected to people who do not forgive unpaid promises.

I looked up.

Thomas’s face was white.

Marcus was watching me carefully.

I kept reading.

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