From Sugar Baby to Heiress

r heat and the promise of graduation, Ava Rodriguez was sev

amily whose money whispered th

rd member then, a woman of st

curse when Valerie Nash,

of cyberbullying, a public shaming, had

ght, hadn't protected Valerie, had perhaps made it

grief twisting into a burning nee

ed Ava's father' s small business, a local garage

l, only ten, was there unexpe

iece of heavy equipment Jax had tampered with – t

the wreckage, his spi

alk again, would need constant

Ava' s family reeling, Jax de

d fear for Miguel, and told her parents abo

ed a wad of cash into her hand, "For your troubl

from Oceanville, leaving

school board, the scandal and Miguel' s

eplaced by the relentless weight o

, she burned it, watching the green turn to ash, a smal