From Pantry To MIT: Their Regret

From the back cover

My parents left me to freeze to death on a mountain just to save their adopted daughter.

When I dragged my broken body back home days later, my father didn't hug me.

Instead, he frowned and asked why I was making such a scene over a "simple accident."

For eighteen years, I was the Corbett family's dirty secret.

Despite being their biological child, I slept in a pantry and scrubbed their floors while Angelique, their "chosen" one, lived like a princess.

They erased my existence, starved me, and when I finally packed my bags to leave forever, they accused me of being an ungrateful gold-digger.

Even my childhood protector, Asher, looked at me with disgust, claiming my survival was hurting "delicate" Angelique.

I severed all ties, but they wouldn't let me go.

When they cornered me at my new school to save their plummeting stock prices, I didn't cower.

I exposed every scar, every unpaid bill, and every crime to the principal, getting them banned from campus.

Now, as I head to MIT on a full ride, the Corbett empire is burning to the ground.

And I' m the one holding the match.