Perfectly Flawed

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The boy was only seven, but he was dressed in a two thousand dollar suit. He was only seven, but he knew that the empire his father had built was the most important thing in the world, in his life. He was only seven, but he was told he was too old to play, and instead spent his time in his father's offices, watching. In a year he would be pulled from his school and placed in the most elite academy in the country. A year after that he would lose his mother and be told that mourning was a waste of time, and something he was to not do. A year after that the walls he put up around himself would completely cover him, shutting and locking for God knows how long. He was only seven but he was never allowed to be a child.

Perfection, order and achievement was what the girl was raised with, raised to be. Her life was half running in the most elite socialite circles, and half preparing to take over her father's business. She was never allowed to do anything other than what her parents taught her, so as she grew older, she lost the part of her that made her her. The child grew into a shell, a robot; a perfectly sculpted and beautiful prodigy, lacking the excitement of childhood.

Is this kind of damage reversible, or are the two simply puppets in the game of life?

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Gabrielle Montgomery, heiress to one of the world's biggest law firms with a net worth in the billions, has been raised to be perfect. But nothing is ever perfect - all it takes is a bad business idea, a boy as broken as herself and a shove into the real world to untangle the net the girl is trapped in.