The CEO's Cruel Comeback

my father sent me to "toughen me up" after my mother's death and my first depressive episo

who ran a hustle out of his locker, selling snacks and running errands for kids

needed money. I

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e just looked at me, his

u? Five

a crisp twent

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dred dollars to walk me to the subway, fifty for a slice of cheap pizza. It was a tr

t him to see p

derneath the expensive clothes. The girl

. He didn't say anything. He just sat down and handed

alking wallet, you k

be with him, I started shedding my own. I traded my designer dresses for ripped jeans, Michelin-star dinn

d into mine. For his birthday, I bought him an expensive leat

it, his fac

take this

t? It's

s pride wounded. "It just remind

to come. He stood in the corner of the lavish ballroom, looking utterly out of place in his

se Jocelyn picked up in Qu

wasn't just about money. It was about a world he could never belong to, a world that wo