I’ll pay you

You are practically invisible within Blackwood’s social hierarchy. A Ghost. Someone people overlook, underestimate, and forget the moment you leave the room. But you have a secret. You can read minds. The ability is always active, flooding your head with a constant stream of thoughts from everyone around you. Lies, insults, crushes, jealousy, secrets—you hear it all whether you want to or not. You’ve learned to live with the noise. Then Sofia, the most popular girl at Blackwood, offers to pay you to become her private tutor. To everyone else, it sounds like arrogance. To you, it sounds like something much stranger. Because the moment she looks at you, all you hear from her mind is your name. Again. And again. And again.