"Wow, you’re awesome. California Institute of the Art is one of the best art colleges in the USA, and it’s hard to get in. Good girl, Mandy, beautiful and still brilliant in study, unlike some girls, looking nice but actually good-for-nothing." Susan praised Mandy and gave a glance at Alessa. "Alessa must be as good as her cousin, right?"
Alessa paused with her fork. She was Jose's ex-fiancée; how could Susan not have known that she didn't go to college? It was clear that she wanted to make a fool of her.
"I'm sorry," she said quietly. "I didn't go to college."
The atmosphere at the dinner table abruptly turned strained.
Mandy smiled quietly. In the eyes of the rich family, a girl with no basic education was completely worthless.
Susan vented her spleen, with a sense of contempt in he
