To an outsider, I must look like I’m one of them—just another disenfranchised youth with too much time on his hands, too scared of the future to admit that he feels lost. On the inside, I couldn’t be more unlike these rejects. I’ve never felt lost a day in my life. Uncertainty is a foreign concept to me. I’ve always known what the future holds. My education and my subsequent career as an estate manager was laid out for me like a red fucking carpet on the day of my birth, roped off to the left and the right to prevent any thought of deviating off course. I am a Lovett. Lord Lovett. One day, I
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