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July 6 - July 9, 2025
Jameson Hawthorne stepped through.
“Everyone is going to want something from you soon, Heiress.”
Me.
“Everything’s a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.”
Iconic
“You are special.”
“He left you the fortune, Avery, and all he left us is you.”
I couldn’t have looked away from him if I’d tried.
Girl this is the second time you've said this
“But the last thing you need on your first day at this school is for anyone to see you getting cozy with me.”
We know you want to get cozy with her
Don’t trust Thea.
She died.”
“Or what happened to Emily will happen to me?”
NAH THATS CRAZY
“Because if you don’t tell the story, someone else will tell it for you.”
“You might think you’re playing the game, darlin’, but that’s not how Jamie sees it.” Nash’s voice was gentle enough, but for the words. “We aren’t normal. This place isn’t normal, and you’re not a player, kid. You’re the glass ballerina—or the knife.”
“Oh, don’t be a prude, Abigail,” Skye admonished from inside the bathroom. “We’re all friends here, aren’t we? I make it a policy to befriend everyone who steals my birthright.” I’d never seen passive aggression quite like this.
RUDE
What are your intentions toward my son?”
She is crazy
Nothing except Jameson Winchester Hawthorne and me.
“She would have been very interested to meet you.”
the boy who’d learned to see the world saw me.
OMG??
I brushed past him, and even that split second of contact made me feel like I was going two hundred miles an hour.
“You, Ms. Grambs,” he continued, “are responsible for the world.”
Putting so much pressure on her
“Don’t be sorry, Ms. Grambs. Be worthy of it.”
The morality of an action depends, ultimately and only, on its outcomes.”
Apparently, for me it was suit-wearing, silver-eyed guys using the word empirically and taking for granted that I knew what it meant.
me too girl
“It’s about your sister.”
“Grayson happened to her.”
“You don’t like me much,” Thea noted. “That’s okay. I’m a hypercompetitive, bisexual perfectionist who likes to win and looks like this. I’m no stranger to being hated.”
Diva
“If I were a boy,” Thea told him with a Southern belle smile, “people would just call me driven.” “Thea.” Constantine frowned at her. “Right.” Thea dabbed at her lips with her napkin. “No feminism at the dinner table.” This time, I couldn’t bite back the snort. Point,
CLOCK HIM
Thea.
“To Emily,” Thea added suddenly, her glass still raised, her eyes on Jameson. “May she rest in peace.”
Dont piss me off
“This family—we destroy everything we touch.”
Oren doesn’t think we’re dealing with an outside threat. I let that sink in, a heaviness in my stomach as I processed the limited number of suspects. The Hawthornes—and the staff.
Plot twist
“It’s okay, Heiress,” Jameson murmured. “I’ve got you.”
YESSSS
Kissing him felt like fire.
“I always knew you were special.”
“If something happens to you—even without a will—your sister and your father are your heirs.”
If Drake had shot at me, and Libby hadn’t let him onto the estate—who had?
If there was ever a time for me to control the narrative, it was now.
Pop off
“I told you the day we met that the Hawthorne family was a twisted, broken mess.” She stared at the mirror a moment longer. “I never said that I wasn’t one, too.”
I didn’t belong here in this world—not at a party like this, not sitting beside Grayson Hawthorne. And I never would.
“Emily died,” Grayson told me, his voice tight, “on October eighteenth, a year ago.”
“I guess you had the good fortune of being born on the right day. Mystery solved.”
The game wasn’t over.
Jameson may have been done with the game, but I wanted to win.
“Their mother.”
Grayson let out a ragged breath, and then I felt him gently turning my face back toward his. “Avery.” He almost never used my given name. He gently traced the line of my jaw. “I won’t let anyone hurt you ever again. You have my word.”
And at the end of the day, he’d chosen me. Over family. Over his mother.
“I used to play chess with him in the park,” I said. “Every morning.” Harry.
I KNEW IT
