My name is Prudence Paul. I am 17 years old, though not for much longer. On the midnight of my 18th birthday, I sat in the dark of my bedroom, opened a secure portal, and transferred every single dollar of my inheritance into an irrevocable corporate trust.
Thank God I did because the very next morning, my mother slid a manila folder across the granite kitchen island, smiled her camera-ready smile, and said, “We need to talk about that money.” My blood ran cold. They had been planning to strip me down to the studs. They just didn’t realize they were dealing with the architect.
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Now, let me take you back exactly 2 weeks before that morning to the moment I realized my family viewed me as a line item on a balance sheet. We live in a Pacific Palisades estate that looks like a modern art museum. Glass walls overlooking the ocean and infinity pool imported Italian marble.
My late biological father built the foundation of this wealth. He was a software pioneer in Silicon Valley who understood code better than he understood people. He died when I was nine.
My mother, Veronica, a former socialite whose main talent is spending other people’s money, wasted no time. She married Harrison, a venture capitalist whose ventures rarely yield actual capital. And then there is Serena, my 23-year-old halfsister.
Serena is a lifestyle influencer. She gets the imported cars, the praise, the corner suite with the ocean view. I get the guest bedroom near the laundry room.
In our house, love is a transaction. An image dictates your value. I study data science in the shadows.
I learned to be quiet. It happened on a Tuesday. I was sitting at the kitchen island running a predictive model on my laptop.
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