When You See Me

The Convict Heiress: Marrying The Billionaire

Rollins Laman

The heavy thud of the release stamp was the only goodbye I got from the warden after five years in federal prison. I stepped out into the blinding sun, expecting the same flash of paparazzi bulbs that had seen me dragged away in handcuffs, but there was only a single black limousine idling on the shoulder of the road. Inside sat my mother and sister, clutching champagne and looking at my frayed coat with pure disgust. They didn't offer a welcome home; instead, they tossed a thick legal document onto the table and told me I was dead to the city. "Gavin and I are getting engaged," my sister Mia sneered, flicking a credit card at me like I was a stray dog. "He doesn't need a convict ex-fiancée hanging around." Even after I saved their lives from an armed kidnapping attempt by ramming the attackers off the road, they rewarded me by leaving me stranded in the dirt. When I finally ran into Gavin, the man who had framed me, he pinned me against a wall and threatened to send me back to a cell if I ever dared to show my face at their wedding. They had stolen my biotech research, ruined my name, and let me rot for half a decade while they lived off my brilliance. They thought they had broken me, leaving me with nothing but an expired chapstick and a few old photos in a plastic bag. What they didn't know was that I had spent those five years becoming "Dr. X," a shadow consultant with five hundred million dollars in crypto and a secret that would bring the city to its knees. I wasn't just a victim anymore; I was a weapon, and I was pregnant with the heir they thought they had erased. I walked into the Melton estate and made an offer to the most powerful man in New York. "I'll save your grandfather's life," I told Horatio Melton, staring him down. "But the price is your last name. I'm taking back what's mine, and I'm starting with the man who thinks he's marrying my sister."

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"Mum!!!!!"

"Brianna what is it this time around is late for people in the next neighborhood to be hearing your voice"

"Well mum why don't you talk to your son, he drives me crazy"

"What is it this time Eric, what did you do to your sister?"

"Nothing mum I only told her not to keep bad friends but you know your daughter always stubborn"

"Did you just call me stubborn?"

"Yeah, I just did"

I wanted to kick him right in front of mum, how could he? We moved in here about three months again because of dad's business but Eric wouldn't let me make any friends.

I just don't understand why he can't just mind his fucking business, yeah I know he is my senior brother but why does he have the right to do whatever he wants, keep whoever he wants as his friend but I don't.

"I am sixteen years old am not a child, I can be friends with whoever I want and you can't do anything about it"

"Aah you are still a child" he said with that stupid smile on his face.

"Mum the next time Eric gets in the way of me trying to make friends around here then I will make sure I make him as miserable as he is making me"

"Brianna your brother is just looking at for you"

"How? By telling all my friends to stay away from me, by making me look like a little princess that has some thug following her around?"

"Am just looking out for you sis" he said and pecked my cheeks before heading upstairs. I was trying to control myself, I hate that stupid smile on his face I wish I can just slap it off his face.

"Wash up and come down for dinner, I made your favorite" my mum called after him.

"Okay, mum"

"That's all you have to say, really mum?"

"Brianna your brother is just looking out for you that is what makes him your big brother because he is always there to protect you"

My mum said cupping my cheeks like she will do to a six years old.

"I just don't like it when he do it around my friends, no one wants to talk to me because my brother is always around the corner glaring at them"

"Okay fine I will talk to him now go upstairs and go wash up, dinner is almost ready"

"That's what you always say but you never do anything about it. Mum we changed our location, am trying not to feel that I left my friend's back at home, here doesn't feel like home mum"

"Brianna home is not where all your friends are, home is where your family are"

"But we still need friends because some friends are also like family, so when they are not around it just wouldn't feel right" I told her before I headed for my room.

"Where are you going to?"

"To my room to forget that dad's work has to make us move all the time"

"But we won't be moving again, I thought your dad told you that"

"Yeah he did but what different does it make?"

"It makes a lot of difference Brianna"

"I hope so"

I went inside my room took my bath and started writing my homework on maths. I really don't like my maths teacher, actually I don't like anything about this city.

Mrs. Cromwell

I wonder who she got that temper from, she is always angry. I know that having to move is really affecting her but her dad and I are only looking for a better life.

And when we finally found one we couldn't say no. I wonder if Eric is being too harsh on her she looked really pissed off today.

I served the food and went upstairs to call everyone down for dinner. Eric was busy with his video game while Brianna passed out on top of her maths question.

"How come you are so into this game that I had to hit you before you notice my presence?" I asked Eric who didn't even notice me standing next to him for some minutes.

"Sorry mum is dinner ready?"

"Yes go downstairs and wait I will get your sister"

"Do you want me to help you carry her down?" Eric asked. He has always been a happy child, always smiling or making others smile but Brianna was the opposite of Eric.

She is very stubborn, she doesn't like it when people mingle in her business, she loves her privacy like hell. She doesn't hide her emotions she just like treating people the way they treated her.

"You don't have to, I will get her myself"

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