Breaking the Billionaire's Rules

by Annika Martin

One of the main things big money does is to insulate you from commoners.

If nothing else, I’ll waste his time, one of the few ways the powerless get revenge on the powerful.

And my mom’ll totally understand, because that’s the Corelli family curse. Chase your goals and get knocked flat.

I walk down the block, trying to keep a spring in my step in case he’s watching out his window. And then I go around the corner and cry.

She drove me crazy. So crazy. And I wanted her with the fury of a thousand suns.

I sometimes fly my buddies out to Vegas

Max and I were polar opposites in every way—he was in the classical music track and the more affluent student group; I was dirt poor and in musical theater, and on a full housing scholarship. I’d never ridden on a plane or slept overnight in a hotel, and

by the time high school rolled around, he’d lived in every glamorous international capital you could name with his fabulous parents.