Her Icy Comeback: A Vengeful Heiress

Her Icy Comeback: A Vengeful Heiress

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Five years ago, my guardian, Fitzgerald Kirk, sent me a video of my childhood horse being led to a slaughterhouse. Then he cast me out, broken and penniless. Tonight, I returned to his family' s annual gala, no longer a helpless ward but a powerful woman ready for my revenge. But he and his fiancée, Cassondra, still saw me as the trash they threw away. She taunted me, asking if I' d run out of money, before "tripping" and drenching my white silk gown in red wine. She looked at me with glee, expecting the broken girl from five years ago to cry. Fitzgerald just watched, a bored smirk on his face as he told me to crawl back to whatever gutter I came from. They wanted a reaction. They wanted the hysterical girl they had destroyed. They had no idea that the memory of my horse' s death had frozen everything inside me, fueling a cold rage that had simmered for half a decade. I didn' t even glance at the stain. Instead, I calmly picked up a full bottle of champagne from a passing waiter' s tray. "Don' t worry," I said, my voice dangerously soft. "Accidents happen." Then I swung the bottle and smashed it against her head.

Chapter 1

Five years ago, my guardian, Fitzgerald Kirk, sent me a video of my childhood horse being led to a slaughterhouse. Then he cast me out, broken and penniless.

Tonight, I returned to his family' s annual gala, no longer a helpless ward but a powerful woman ready for my revenge.

But he and his fiancée, Cassondra, still saw me as the trash they threw away.

She taunted me, asking if I' d run out of money, before "tripping" and drenching my white silk gown in red wine.

She looked at me with glee, expecting the broken girl from five years ago to cry.

Fitzgerald just watched, a bored smirk on his face as he told me to crawl back to whatever gutter I came from.

They wanted a reaction. They wanted the hysterical girl they had destroyed.

They had no idea that the memory of my horse' s death had frozen everything inside me, fueling a cold rage that had simmered for half a decade.

I didn' t even glance at the stain. Instead, I calmly picked up a full bottle of champagne from a passing waiter' s tray.

"Don' t worry," I said, my voice dangerously soft. "Accidents happen."

Then I swung the bottle and smashed it against her head.

Chapter 1

Blair Phillips POV:

Five years ago, Fitzgerald Kirk, the man who was supposed to be my guardian, my brother, sent me a video. It was of my childhood horse, Comet, being led into a slaughterhouse. His only sin was loving me more than he loved Fitzgerald. Tonight, at the Kirks' annual charity gala, I planned to return the favor.

The memory of it still felt like a shard of ice in my chest, a cold so deep it had frozen everything else inside me. For five years, that cold had been my fuel. It had built my company, sharpened my mind, and led me back here, to this glittering ballroom filled with the city's elite.

I saw them across the room. Fitzgerald, as handsome and charismatic as ever, his arm possessively around his fiancée, Cassondra Carroll. She was the one who had whispered the poison into his ear, the ambitious assistant who saw me as a rival for the Kirk family throne. Her smile was a venomous slash of red lipstick.

My hand tightened around the stem of my champagne flute. Jordan, my own fiancé, squeezed my other hand, his warmth a steady anchor in the storm of my past.

"You don' t have to do this, Blair," he murmured, his voice a low rumble of concern.

"I do," I said, my voice as cold as the ice in my veins. "This was never just about me."

I left Jordan' s side and started to walk towards them, each step a deliberate beat of a war drum.

The crowd parted for me. They didn't recognize me at first. The girl they remembered was a quiet, broken ward of the Kirks. The woman walking towards them now was someone else entirely.

Cassondra saw me first. Her smile faltered, a flicker of confusion in her eyes. Then recognition dawned, followed by a sneer.

"Well, look what the cat dragged in," she said, her voice dripping with condescension. "Blair Phillips. I' m surprised they let you in. I thought you' d be... elsewhere."

Fitzgerald' s head turned. His eyes, the same piercing blue that had haunted my nightmares, widened for a fraction of a second. He hid it well, his mask of bored arrogance slipping back into place. But I saw it. I saw the flicker of something that wasn't boredom at all.

"Cassondra, darling, be nice," he drawled, though his eyes never left my face. "It' s been a long time, Blair."

"Not long enough," I replied, my voice flat.

Cassondra stepped forward, positioning herself between me and Fitzgerald, a petty queen guarding her king. "What do you want? Did you run out of money? Fitzgerald isn' t your personal bank anymore."

Her words were meant to sting, to remind me of the penniless girl he had cast out. But they didn't touch me. Nothing she could say could touch the frozen core inside me.

I ignored her and kept my eyes on Fitzgerald. "I came to give you something," I said.

Cassondra laughed, a sharp, unpleasant sound. "What could you possibly give us? A sob story?"

Suddenly, she "tripped," her glass of red wine sloshing forward, drenching the front of my white silk gown. A collective gasp went through the onlookers.

"Oh, my goodness, I am so sorry!" Cassondra exclaimed, her hand flying to her mouth in a perfect imitation of shock. "How clumsy of me."

She looked at my ruined dress with undisguised glee. She wanted a reaction. She wanted the broken, hysterical girl from five years ago.

She was about to be sorely disappointed.

I didn' t even glance at the stain. Instead, I calmly picked up a full bottle of champagne from a passing waiter' s tray.

"Don' t worry," I said, my voice dangerously soft. "Accidents happen."

And then I swung the bottle.

It connected with the side of her head with a sickening thud, followed by the pop of the cork and a spray of champagne and blood.

Cassondra crumpled to the floor, screaming.

The room erupted in chaos.

Her friends, a gaggle of socialites, rushed forward. "Are you crazy?" one of them shrieked, pointing a trembling finger at me. "Do you know who she is? That' s Fitzgerald Kirk' s fiancée!"

Another one added, her voice shrill with panic, "Fitzgerald adores her! He' ll kill you for this!"

Cassondra was on the floor, clutching her head, blood matting her perfectly styled hair. She looked up at me, her eyes wide with a mixture of pain and disbelief.

"You... you' re just as insane as you were five years ago," she whimpered, referencing the day I had nearly gauged her eye out with a fireplace poker after seeing Comet' s video.

I looked down at her, at the woman who had smiled while my world burned. Five years had passed. She was more polished, more confident, but underneath it all, she was the same vicious, insecure creature.

"You think this is insane?" I asked, my voice barely a whisper. "You haven' t seen anything yet."

I bent down and picked up a large, jagged shard of the broken bottle from the floor. The sharp edges didn' t bother me. The cold inside me was sharper.

I took a step towards her. The crowd backed away, a circle of horrified faces.

Cassondra scrambled backward on the floor, her expensive dress tearing. "Stay away from me!"

"Remember the fireplace poker, Cassondra?" I asked, my voice conversational, as if we were discussing the weather. I held the glass shard up, letting it catch the light from the chandelier. "I only stopped because Fitzgerald pulled me off you. He thought he was saving you."

I took another step.

"He wasn't," I said, my voice dropping to a deadly whisper. "He was saving my revenge for a day I was strong enough to truly enjoy it."

I was about to bring the shard down, to carve the memory of this night onto her perfect face, when a hand clamped down on my wrist like a steel vice.

"That' s enough, Blair."

Fitzgerald.

His voice was a low growl, tight with fury. His grip was crushing, but I didn' t flinch.

Cassondra sobbed, crawling towards him. "Fitz! Make her stop! She' s a monster!"

Fitzgerald pulled me back, his body a wall of muscle against mine. His scent, a familiar mix of expensive cologne and something uniquely him, filled my senses, and for a second, I was seventeen again, trapped and helpless.

But I wasn't seventeen anymore.

"Let go of me," I snarled, struggling against his grip.

He just tightened it, his fingers digging into my skin. "You' re done here."

With a surge of adrenaline, I twisted in his grasp, breaking free just enough to swing my arm. The glass shard in my hand sliced across the back of his hand, the one holding me.

He swore, dropping my wrist as blood welled up from the gash.

I stood before him, breathing heavily, the broken glass still clutched in my hand. He stared at the blood on his hand, then up at me, his eyes blazing with a terrifying, familiar fire.

I gave him a slow, cold smile.

"Long time no see, Fitzgerald."

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