Freya’s POV
For a solid five seconds, I genuinely thought I’d misheard him.
There was no way.
No way.
I’d heard the rumors, sure. Everyone had. Whispers in the dorm hallways, half-baked theories in the cafeteria, the occasional Reddit thread someone pretended not to care about but definitely read. The heiress to the Pallas Consortium was enrolled in our college.
Everyone thought it was Stella.
I thought it was Stella.
It just made sense. The money. The attitude. The name. The entitlement. She fit.
But me
I couldn’t even wrap my head around it. It didn’t compute.
I stared at Clarence like he’d grown two heads. Was this a trick A strategy Some wild bluff to knock Stella down a peg Was he… mistaken
Because I knew my life. My background. My family. And none of it—none of it—had ever come close to billionaire status, let alone being the heiress to one of the most powerful corporations in the country.