Nameless
By the time I woke inside the body of the true heir in a novel, the one everyone despised and who had never done a single decent thing, the story was already nearing its end.
My biological parents gave up on me after I framed the boy they had raised in my place one time too many.
My fiancee was hopelessly obsessed with him. She would have paid for a ten-million-dollar wedding out of her own pocket just to make him smile.
My biological sister was his fiercest protector. If I said one thing that upset him, she was ready to make me pay.
As the person everyone despised, my ending was obvious.
Everyone voted to send me away to a private behavioral-health residence.
Curled against him, my fiancee mocked me.
"Maybe you'll finally learn how to behave."
My parents withdrew everything except a monthly ten-thousand-dollar allowance. "That's the minimum support we'll give you."
"Beyond that, you're on your own."
I was so delighted that I dropped to one knee and swept them a deep, theatrical bow.
"You're too kind, Your Majesty."
The next second, every face in the room changed.