KEY TO MY HEART

Phoenix Rising: The Scarred Heiress's Revenge

Xiao Hong Mao

I lived as the "scarred ghost" of the Stephens penthouse, a wife kept in the shadows because my facial burns offended my billionaire husband's aesthetic. For years, I endured Kason's coldness and my family's abuse, a submissive puppet who believed she had nowhere else to go. The end came with a blue folder tossed onto my silk sheets. Kason's mistress was back, and he wanted me out by sunset, offering a five-million-dollar "silence fee" to go hide my face in the countryside. The betrayal cut deep when I discovered my father had already traded my divorce for a corporate bailout. My step-sister mocked my "trashy" appearance at a high-end boutique, while the sales staff treated me like a common thief. At home, my father threatened to cut off my mother's life-saving medicine unless I crawled back to Kason to beg for a better deal. I was the girl who took the blame for a fire she didn't start, the wife who worshipped a man who never looked her in the eye, and the daughter used as a human bargaining chip. I was supposed to be broken, penniless, and desperate. But the woman who stood up wasn't the weak Elease Finch anymore; she was Phoenix, a tactical predator with a $500 million secret. I signed the divorce papers without a single tear, walked past my stunned husband, and wiped the Finch family's bank accounts clean with a few taps on my phone. "Your money is dirty," I told Kason with a cold smile. "I prefer clean hands." The cage is open, the hunt has begun, and I'm starting with the people who thought a scar made me weak.

Modern Revenge

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Authoress pov

Go and Join Axel in the car, I will be there in few minutes too… Amelia told Arnold and tried heading back in to the house.

Why are you sending me off? We should leave together, we are already late Amelia… he snapped

Yeah I know. You know what? I forgot my diary at the dinning last night, I need to get it before anyone else could.

Now stop questioning me and go. I will be back shortly. She answered and ran off.

What the hell are you doing with my diary?? She questioned as she saw a maid tried leaving with it.

Sorry ma'am, I didn't know it was yours, I saw it at the dinning while cleaning the table. So I thought of keeping it safe. I never knew that you left it there.. the maid immediately explained

Give it here….. now listen to me; when next you see things that doesn't belong to you, you must not touch it.. understood??

Yes ma'am I won't touch it… the maid replied and Amelia simply walked away. It was her luck that she got there on time.

After satisfying herself about the safety of the diary where she kept it, Amelia left the room and coincidentally bumped into Mrs Lee.

I thought you left for school already, why are you still at home?? Says by an early fiftieth woman standing on the way, With her hands by her side.

Mrs Lee who happens to be the head of all their caretakers and whom they consider their Aunty, cause of how long she's been living with them asked Amelia as she bumped into her.

Aunt I came to return my diary, but I am leaving now Bye.. she rushed her words and left hurriedly.

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The driving to school seems tensed as always, since they always have to drop Arnold and Axel first before finally dropping Amelia.

Luck ran out of their way as they bumped into traffic on their way to drop Amelia, Amelia feels frustrated having to adapt to the fact that she would have to face the wrath of the school Monitor once again.

She had sworn not to ever make herself his scape goat anymore and now knowing that she will be facing another punishment from him disorganized her system.

If not for the diary, well it's a good thing she went back to get it. Who knows what that maid would have done to it? Probably reading it and found out about all her privacy.

Obviously that won't be good for her or anyone else…

WE ARE ALREADY IN YOUR SCHOOL MA'AM..the driver said and jolted her out of her thought.

SORRY..… I meant to say Thank you…She immediately corrected her words.

PLEASE come pick me up Early after school, so we can pick my brothers too, I won't want them waiting for us like yesterday… she said before leaving the car.

Amelia matched towards her class l, avoiding the stare from the students. She unknowingly collided with MINA.

Don't tell me you've been here waiting for me?…. Amelia doubtfully asked

Who else will I be waiting for? I can't believe it that you still have the gut to arrive late to school. Says by Mina

After everything you faced with the Monitor yesterday Amelia… Mina said and gave her side hug since Amelia hasn't given her the chance to even say HI.

You should also know that I can't be coming here late to school out of my own wish, at least not when I know what that monster is capable of doing to me.

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