The Substitute Who Finally Escaped
Language: en
The first time I met Victoria “Tori” Leighton, my benefactor, was on the day my mother was dying. The figure on the check she slid across the table could have bought my mother a new life, and mine along with it. “Be my boyfriend for three years, Andy. When the contract ends, the money is yours.” And so, I started wearing the clean, tailored white shirts, copying the style of Dominic “Dom” Keller, her idealized first love—her Original Sin. She treated me extravagantly. I wasn’t a hidden pauper; I was publicly her chosen partner. She purchased rare antiques for me, declared to the press that…