Part of the Family by Cristina Grenier

Author:Cristina Grenier [Grenier, Cristina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BWWM Billionaire Romance
Publisher: Monster Media LLC
Published: 2018-03-10T16:00:00+00:00

The Arrangement

Cristina Grenier

Prologue

She could always tell when she was getting close to her neighborhood. She knew the way by heart. The teenager had been walking it for the past three years - she probably could have done it with her eyes closed and her feet would have found the way.

But if she kept them open, the slow deterioration of the town began to show the moment she was beyond the main square.

Makayla had thought about it more than she liked to admit it, and she supposed that very few visitors actually went beyond the square. It was pretty, perfectly manicured, and lined with shops and restaurants that she could never hope to be able to afford. The length of real-estate that extended from the square to Trembley Academy was the public face of the town. Most of its sixty thousand residents had nice little cottages or brick houses just off Main Street. Personally, Makayla wasn’t even sure they were aware that Trembley went on beyond the square.

Every day when school ended, she left the pristine classrooms alone and tried to tell herself she didn’t long for the company of friends. Makayla was sure that it would only mean disaster if she got too close to anyone. She was only attending Trembley Academy because she had received a scholarship. She couldn’t imagine that any of the other students, who came from moneyed households and pampered lives, would be happy to learn that their sacred halls had been invaded by an outsider.

So, instead of approaching anyone, Makayla watched. She watched gaggles of girls gush over a different boy from one week to the next. She watched them involve themselves in extracurricular activities from art to mathematics, joining clubs that would take them all over the country for competitions. She watched them go on field trips that cost more money than she had ever seen in her life - watched them live and love their lives, and promised herself that, one day, she would be just like them.

But, in the meantime, she walked home every afternoon. She made sure no one watched as she passed beyond the square and the buildings became more and more sparse. Here, the economic trouble that had plagued the country in the past years was more apparent. More than half the shops had boarded up their windows and the people roaming the streets weren’t as well-dressed.

But they were far more like her than anyone at Trembley Academy.

Though she attended school there, in Makayla’s mind, the Academy wasn’t so much the real world as a haven made for young people to shelter them before it was time to emerge into it. At school, there were no fights. No screaming matches and no missed meals. As long as she continued to do well, she was just another student.

Her home situation couldn’t have been any more different.

The further she got from the square, the more dilapidated buildings grew. There were no longer any gleaming cars sitting out front of pretty little houses, but half run down apartment buildings with junkers on their withering grass lawns.

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