“I do care,” I said at once. “I’ve already made plans. I will pay their tuition directly to the college and give them their own accounts with a weekly allowance. But that money goes directly to them, not to you, Victor.”“How dare you,” Victor snapped. “You act as though I would steal that money.”I imagined that was exactly what he would do, which was why I had arranged things as I had. Like this, there was no way that he could take the money from Vanessa’s younger siblings.Inwardly, I lamented Vanessa’s terrible luck at being born into such a vicious family. Her father was the heir of a human noble family, but her mother had been a werewolf. As a hybrid, Vanessa had been an outsider in her own home. At ten, her parents died in a car accident and what few threads held the family together had finally frayed.Vanessa had worked hard and proved herself by making a successful business, but her grandfather insisted that business support the entire family. She was being exploited by her f
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