She Rose from the Ashes
"Chloe, you really don't know, do you?"
She walked closer to my bed, looking down at me from above. "That money's long gone. Prof. Stenson already spent it."
"That's a lie!" I struggled to sit up.
"Is it?" Wynter pulled out her phone, swiping to a photo before tossing it onto my blanket. It was a financial report, every detail of the fund's flow laid out in black and white.
"He used your parents' money to build his lab, buy a riverside villa, and get himself a luxury car. Oh, and…" She pointed to one of the entries with a grin. "My living expenses. Over the years, that's added up to more than a million."