Chapter 316

In the days that followed, I threw myself into work—it became the center of my life. After a lot of back-and-forth brainstorming with Summer and getting a few pointers from Henry Smith, we ditched the idea of opening an online store and instead set up a small photo studio. Ever since I was a kid, I’d dreamed of being a photographer—traveling the world, capturing every breathtaking moment through my lens. But back then, when I couldn’t scrape enough money together for school and got into a whole mess with Heather Carter trying to borrow tuition, everything went sideways. I started hating the Carters, especially Lena Carter. I gave up on photography for revenge, and ended up studying Lena’s major instead. Now, I just want out of this revenge loop. I don’t want to turn into a copy of Ella Reid like Vera Clark claimed. So I left behind ten whole years of studying landscape design and decided to go back to square one—to chase the dream I abandoned. I never expected money to suddenly rain fr