Evelyn's POV Everyone knew Elroy Vans, everyone in this city. But only a few families were affiliated with his and could have access to him. His face was on billboards across the city, sharp jaw, perfect hair. The Vans family funded half the buildings at Crestwood. Their name was on everything, carved into stone and metal like a reminder that some people owned the world and the rest of us were just passing through it. I expected him to be like the others. He wasn't. And that was somehow worse. He was worse than others in ways that unsettled me. Elroy sat in the third row. Always perfectly dressed, always early, always with a book open on his desk that had nothing to do with my class. Philosophy mostly. Sometimes economics. Once I walked past and caught the title and it was a first edition of something that probably cost more than my rent or even my entire earnings put together. He listened more than the others. Really listened, the kind where you can feel someone actually proc
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