The Billionaire Darkness

Chapter One-Hundred Fourteen

Olivia Thorne

I sat at the kitchen counter while I studied the final course material for our exam in two weeks.

The only difference was I was distracted by rereading the acceptance letter to Thornbrook, the crest at the top of the page like an emblem of my escape.

I had thought so much about that school, envisioned what it must be like yet now I was actually allowed to go. I had sent the confirmation email to the Principal and all the details were still being organized but none the less I was so close to being free. I had my chance to escape and not actually be forced to remain in Brooklyn where Demetri could find me. I would be a member of the untouchable Thornbrook Academy student body.

I now had access to so much around the name Thornbrook their sports teams and event photos. I'd honestly spent hours looking through all of the school memorabilia going all the way back to the fifties and found that it was only in the nineties that people began taking note of certain family's wealth.

Thornbrook was clearly prestigious, and it had record of so many wealthy people, both public and several who were so secretive finding pictures of any of them required me going onto social media rather than Googling them. But now I was welcome to this highly exclusive school even if I wouldn't fit in, I'd just stick to being a loner and getting by without becoming involved with any of the drama of the school's wealthy families.

Looking through all the clubs and forums around the school's websites and the members of the school, I got to see a lot more then I would have liked in terms of excess. There were so many students that showed their family's wealth yet I noticed that it was mostly members of clubs that showed off the rest of the students didn't. However, I was aware that people in clubs were often viewed with a certain select lens in comparison to the other people in a school.

The hierarchy was what I wouldn't enjoy, at the top would be the children of billionaire's then royalty, the multi millionaire heirs, legacy students, actors and celebrities, well paid members of the city who simply could afford the tuition because of political and family connection, then the scholarship students. I would be at the bottom in more then one way, it would be different if I was in the first-year class where I could make friends over the coming years but I'd be joining Junior year where everyone else would have friends from the past decade all already established.

You just have to get through the two years of school and then it won't matter.

My goal was simply to get by and remain unnoticed so I just hoped that my assumption of prodigious students was accurate.

All of a sudden, I heard a car park outside before a door shut and a knock came from the door.

Crossing the house to the living room window I pulled the curtain to see a police car parked outside and I was genuinely curious of why one would be there.

Getting to the door I opened it just enough to look outside at the officer.

"Hello?" I start, "what can I help you with officer?"

"Hi my name is Officer Lyons I am just giving information to an Olivia Thorne about Demetri Flanne," he says and I have to resist taking a step back.

"I am Olivia, what about Demetri?" I ask my heartbeat beginning to pick up as I tried to think of what it could have possibly been about him that I had the police here to tell me.

"He was found to be a part of a Manhattan based gang, and was convicted of several murders, and is now going to a prison but it came to our attention through interviewing him that you were his girlfriend for nearly the past year and we had some disturbing testimony from him towards you so I was sent down to ask a few questions."