Jade stopped me from hanging out with Lucian, probably because she didn’t want the reminder. If I refused to listen, she’d make sure that I couldn’t go see my mother at the hospital for weeks, so I obeyed, and slowly but surely, I ended up losing all my friends. I’d been so focused on my mother, and I’d been so young… I just didn’t realize what she was doing, not until it was too late. When she convinced my dad to stop paying for my mother’s care, I was all alone. I had no connections left, no one to reach out to. All I had was my trust fund, and I just prayed it was enough. Maybe I shouldn’t
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