Gated community.”
“With my inheritance?”
His expression hardened instantly, the way it always did whenever I questioned him.
“Don’t be dramatic, Ava. That money came from your grandfather. He believed in family.”
My grandfather also believed in contracts.
Six months before he died, he named me sole beneficiary of a $2.4 million investment account and gave Dad temporary custodial authority only until my eighteenth birthday.
For years, my parents treated the money as family property.
Lena was always the golden child.
Her private college was necessary.
Her designer clothes
