Chapter 3

For the next week, I lived like a ghost at Williams Manor.

Brandon froze all my credit cards and even had the housekeeper shut off the heat in my bedroom. He spent his evenings in the living room with my stepmom, Monica, and Lily, laughing and planning Lily's upcoming birthday party, as if I didn't exist.

I overheard Lily's voice drifting up from downstairs. "She still hasn't come crawling back?"

Brandon let out a cold laugh. "Give it time. She's got no money, and the black card's been cut off. Once that waiter blows through the ten thousand dollars, she'll…