Chapter 6

I didn't feel even a shred of sympathy for any of them.

If Rebecca hadn't overheard everything and even posted online to look for me out of kindness, I would have been the one getting torn apart by everyone right now.

But Harry would never have let me off that easily. His ambition ran deep. He would have used that video to blackmail me endlessly, draining me dry piece by piece until my family had nothing left.

Thinking back, everything between us had been premeditated from the very start.

I had gotten into a local university. I lived on campus because commuting was tiring, but every Friday, Dad sent Malcolm to pick me up.

It all began when someone spread rumors that I was sleeping around.

I was always low-key. I never talked about my family background.

Until one day, someone anonymously posted pictures on the campus confession board of me getting picked up in a luxury car, calling me out by name as a freshman from the finance department.

I was accused of things I hadn't done, w