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She shuddered almost imperceptibly, thinking about having to sleep next to a corpse, until it occurred to her it wouldn’t be much different from sleeping next to an alive William Carter Jr.
Sick dig but you know you don’t have to fr sleep there right
She didn’t know if he loved life, but she knew that he was actively pursuing not dying (aside from the smoking).
I meeeean he wasn’t trying that hard then was he
She imagined that her parents had given her such a long French name so that she could be destined for a life that required an elegant assembly of letters.
but the soul food would do the job of demonstrating to all in attendance that the Carters definitely had souls.
Jacqueline was only half listening to the lecture, which was feeling like a revised version of the Ten Commandments.
Her veins had turned icy, running a frigid stream right to her heart, which calcified against any tender feelings that might become a distraction.
In acting class, Jacqueline was asked to do all kinds of exercises that had nothing to do with acting. She assumed that she would be learning how to do accents and stage fights. Instead, she was asked to do things like find an emotional anchor, exploring something that had happened in her life that might help her better connect to a character.
In acting class, Jacqueline was asked to do all kinds of exercises that had nothing to do with acting. Such as: how to act.
looking like a GAP ad but sounding like the wrong side of a Reddit thread.
Yikes but what a fun sentence
It was fine to aspire to whiteness in a superficial way, just not to let it in too close. The Carters were a Black dynasty, a new one, and they desired to remain this way through as many generations as possible.
“Isn’t any fortune worth more than a billion dollars blood money?”
She just had a weird feeling that she was getting closer to finding out that a billion-dollar fortune just might be dirty in some way.
God I’m sorry but it’s hard to care about this book when the big twist is that billionaire children are learning billionaires are unethical. Duh!!!! Welcome to the real world!!
“All construction businesses suffer accidents. That’s what insurance is for.” This response wasn’t what she was expecting at all. Her brother, so obtuse, so out of touch with administrative affairs, knew about construction regulations and insurance?
Kennedy are you stupid???? THIS IS A VERY BASIC CONCEPT
“Okay, so we charge people every step of the way,” he said. “We do the design, source the materials, manufacture the modules, and build, and then we also sell insurance for the individual units and everything inside them? That we also make.”
Isn’t this just a vertical monopoly? That I learned about as like a freshman??? No way these people aren’t being used as an example in high school social studies classes
“Yes . . . yes, of course. I got it, Dad,” Asher said, surprised that this was all new information to him. Had he really been working here for the last four summers with no idea how the company even made money?
Both Asher and Kennedy are CLUELESS and DUMB
“How does he do that?” Kennedy asked. Asher broke character. “What do you mean, how? Who cares? That’s a great sound bite. Use that.”
This is just such a weird argument. Would it really be so bad to say “he pays people like custodial staff well”
Is this family allergic to not being suspicious or
William Carter Jr. became a billionaire, yes, but he had suffered to get there.
Aw :( was it hard :( was letting your friend die difficult :( was it a struggle to obliterate his dream :(
But sometimes, despite his best efforts, he was still haunted by the night Kofi died in Accra.
Honestly I don’t even think it’s your fault bud I just don’t like you
He did a double take, not expecting to see a female student in Professor Hill’s midst, but a lot could change in two decades.
Jesus
William’s heart fell as he wondered if this was a preview of what their married life would be like.
Yeah dude it’s so annoying when stupid women won’t just marry a millionaire with no questions
“Mr. Earn?”
Is now a good time to say that spelling it Earn instead of Ern is nuts
It was hard for her to say no to Kennedy, whom Tashia considered to be as helpless and pitiful as a newborn animal.
Jesus
“because if this is the worst thing that’s ever happened to you in your life, your life’s actually . . . fine, so come on.”
I think that what happened to her was actually pretty bad. Like you’re not wrong but an 18 yo is allowed to be devastated
“So you’re saying you think this is all related?” Tashia asked.
Is the last 25% for real going to be just us learning the same stuff Again
captain hindsight: yeah kinda
Asher realized he’d never had so many thoughts in such rapid succession.
Asher walked in a daze to his room and decided to do what he always did when he was confused, which was often. He did nothing.
“I don’t think anyone is ever going to run the story that William Carter Jr., premiere family man and entrepreneur, is a monster running his company like a thug, no,” Madison said with finality.
But also like. Being unethical, monopolies, etc. That’s not illegal. Immoral, sure, but immorality doesn’t take down billionaires. Like, illegal stuff doesn't even take down billionaires.
but if anything criminal comes up, specifically, then we are talking about an end to life as you know it.”
Surely you have like. An alert on your name. How is this website not known of yet
Had she immortalized this in a film, everyone would have seen it.
I’m confused about what part of this she thought would be an endearing story
He must have thought of himself as a vigilante hero, like Batman perhaps, but Batman’s whole thing was that he was wealthy, right?
