Chapter 4

"Private school tuition was 20 thousand dollars a year. That's 50 thousand dollars for three years of high school.

"Between tutoring, extracurriculars, and winter camps, it added up to roughly 65 thousand dollars.

"And that shirt you're wearing, the one you called a piece of worthless junk?"

I yanked up my sleeve, revealing arms crisscrossed with scars and burn marks.

"I busted my back working three jobs a day just to afford fabric for you, just to give you a decent life! And when everyone else was asleep, I was still hunched over, working through the night hand-sewing custom suits.