Reborn Heiress: Breaking The Toxic Engagement

ght shot through Ca

nose, burning all the way down into her lungs. She gas

g the panic seizing her chest. The ceiling was a blur of white. The fluore

trickle, but a high-voltage

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papers across a mahogany desk. The sharp edge of the

nt, mocking smile on her lips. A smile that felt

nd shockingly white. His silhouette against the skyline, standing on the

reet. The humiliation of being demoted from

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r knuckles turning white, the starched cotton twisting into ropes in her fists. A

eaking on the polished floor. "Miss Luna, c

andice flinched as if burned. She shoved th

ve been unconscious," the nurse said, her vo

gh the storm in her

, but her eyes started to focus. She slowly,

But they were unmarred. No scars from that b

a digital clock on the bedside table. It dis

ing. Before the bankruptcy.

twenty-t

emor. It was real. This wasn't a memory or a dream. It was a second ch

dle of the hospita

assistant. He held a bouquet of blue roses, the same impossible, g

ius had once filled her apartment with these flowers, only to later

kened." His tone was impeccably courteous, but Candice saw the cold appraisal in his eyes, the subtle condescension in the tilt of his he

er past life-her future life-boiled up, turning into a cold, hard hatred. Her

their stepping

ty vase on her bedside table. The gesture was proprietary, as if he w

, grabbing the glass of

t's hesitation, she flung the c

r dripped from his perfectly styled hair onto the lapel of his expensive suit. The blue ro

a weight that made the air in the room feel heavy. She pushed

e, regained some of his composure. "Miss Luna, I sugges

he word was gas

bing the entire bouquet. With a surge

stant flinched back, stunned by her ferocity. He had exp

door. "Tell Julius Hansen to never, ever s

inally snapping it shut. He gave a curt, angry nod. "Mr.

ft, slamming the

ined from Candice's body. She collapsed back a

st her ribs. There was no fear in her eyes. Only the fli

unsteady, but she stumbled to the window and yanked the hea

the bare skin of her ring finger. There was

is time, there

sen family would p