Chapter 38: Kingsley Blackthorn
There were three big names in the city: the Whites, the Blackthorns, and the Delacroix.
The Blackthorns owned politics –governors, senators, judges– the kind of power that couldn’t be bought.
The Whites ran the tech world –wealth wrapped in patents, satellites, and digital gold. Cold, brilliant minds and colder reputations.
And the Delacroix family? They owned the underworld. Velvet gloves over bloodstained hands. Art auctions by day, international arms deals by night. Classy, cultured, and terrifying.
Greenville had students from all three bloodlines. They were the true elite of the elites — more powerful than the self-proclaimed 7 Divas, yet quieter, like ghosts.
Their silence gave the Divas their stage.
Still, the Divas knew better than to touch certain lines. And they never dared to anger them.
Except Charlotte.
Charlotte wasn’t born into any of the three families but Anita had gifted her the privilege. As Anita’s beloved sister-in-law, she automatically became one of them.
Anita may have severed ties with her White family, no one dared to take that literally.
Charlotte has power, access to everything in school... except Kingsley Blackthorn.