The Birthday Crash

Wren's POV

My life had already been destroyed, and now he cared about my education?

How ironic.

I stood there amidst the glittering chandeliers and the suffocating scent of expensive perfumes, staring into Torin's panicked eyes. He wanted to know where I went to school. He wanted to find a new angle to justify the disdain he harbored for me. I spent my youth chasing a sliver of light, pouring