The Talking Coin Exposed My Family's Betrayal

On my twenty-fifth birthday, my cousin gave me a lucky old coin.

Late that night, while I was binge-watching a show, it started passing judgment on me.

"Pretty face, kind heart — and yet you've gone soft in the head."

I assumed it was dubbing from the show, so I closed the app and opened my messages to reply to Viola Pruitt.

*I am definitely not going to that setup.*

"Dumb as a rock. Your cousin's going to that date pretending to be you, and she'll not only save the future richest man in the country, she'll marry him too."