The check remained tucked away in my trinket box, hidden beneath my bed. I refused to cash it until I at least talked to Bramwell. Unfortunately, I hadn’t come up with much of a plan to pay him back that wouldn’t continue to put me behind with Bee.
Omg—so no, Lilia will *not* start acting like someone who will do anything for her sister. Every day that overdue tuition doesn't get paid is another day closer to her sister getting kicked out of school and having to live with a useless dad and see his sex pest criminal friend. It's honestly hard for me to feel any sympathy for Lilia.
In fact, I'm side-eyeing her. Lilia never got the money from her sex work, making it all for nothing. Her embarrassment and paranoid fear took precedence over her sister's immediate *need for school payment*. Then, it barely occured to Lilia that crossing boundaries with Bramwell would cause him to drop her as an assistant, when it should have been a glaring siren in her mind.
