The Allowance
ISABELLA King had never been told no.
Not once in her twenty years.
She was the kind of girl who moved through the world like it was designed for her- glossy hair, lazy smile, top of her class when she bothered to show up.
She wasn’t cruel.
She was simply… accustomed.
Accustomed to attention. Accustomed to privilege. Accustomed to getting what she wanted.
Until her father died and the money vanished.
The world shifted under her feet.
Suddenly, she was the broke girl at an expensive university, with her tuition overdue, her landlord threatening eviction, and a scholarship hanging by a thread.
And Isabella discovered something she had never experienced before:
Want.
Want that wasn’t automatically satisfied.
Want that frightened her.
The email came in the middle of
