The Price of Scandal

~VALERIE POV~

Three weeks.

It had been three weeks since Beatrice's engagement party, and everything was falling apart.

I sat on the bathroom floor with my phone, scrolling through the latest articles about my past. Someone had dug up photos of me working at the diner.

Someone else had found records of my family's financial struggles. The comments were worse than ever.

"Looks like a gold digger fr