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Reborn From Flames: The Billionaire's Bride

Chapter 3 

Word Count: 962    |    Released on: Today at 11:15

oden handle of the closet door, hearing the latch click into place. She turned around, her b

rabbed a discarded oversized men's dress shirt from the armchair and pulled it on, lea

mahogany door beeped sharply. The sound of a keycard being for

ay spilled into the dim suite, bringing with it a chaotic stamp

a mask of exaggerated panic. "Alia! Are you in her

heavy cameras and microphones, their lenses scanning the room like hungry predators

terrified by the sudden intrusion. She let her knees buckle slightly,

g but a men's shirt, her hair a messy tangle. A f

ho is the man?" Cherri gasped loudly, covering her m

rmed the sofa, shoving their micropho

ansactions in this hotel?" A reporter with th

nting the perfect image of a broken, weeping woman. Beneath t

ster while pouring gasoline on the fire. "Stop filming her! My si

room, searching for the hidden lover. Her gaze l

e police to have him arrested!" Cherri marched to

She tensed her leg muscles,

d from the terrace. The heavy glass sliding door connecting

stuffy room. Everyone froze, turning

nd five-inch stilettos. She tossed her long hair over her shoulder, flanked by two massive men

ee who dares to touch my people." Caitlyn's v

She was a top-tier socialite no one in the media dared to cross. The

he had meticulously planned this, and Caitl

doing here?" Cherri sta

self protectively in front of Alia. She looked d

ing audition and needed a place to rest. Do I need to report

anging rapidly. This was no longer a sex scandal; it was

inger at the oversized shirt Alia was wearing. "An a

water from the coffee table and, without a second of hesit

ing backward as the water ruined her flawless makeup,

ss and borrowed it. Do you have a problem with that?" Caitlyn li

raised an eyebrow, a flicker of genuine amusement crossi

ington heir. They would rather jump off the Brooklyn Bridge tha

iological tear from the corner of her eye. She locked her cold ga

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Reborn From Flames: The Billionaire's Bride
Reborn From Flames: The Billionaire's Bride
“Alia was trapped in a burning warehouse, the thick smoke tearing at her throat. Outside the heavy iron door, her stepsister Cherri laughed. "Gaylen never loved you. He spent two years playing the devoted boyfriend just to get the security codes to the Vanderbilt family vault. You were nothing but a convenient, stupid key." Cherri even revealed that Alia's stepfather had deliberately cut the brake lines on her mother's car. The betrayal tore through Alia's nervous system. As the burning roof collapsed, the iron door burst open. Ansel Vanderbilt, the ruthless Wall Street king she had feared her entire life, charged through the flames. His custom suit charred instantly as he shielded her small body with his own. He cried into her neck, choosing to burn to ashes right by her side. Until her last agonizing breath, Alia didn't understand. Why did her family hate her so much? And why was this terrifying man the only one willing to embrace death with her? Opening her eyes again, Alia wasn't dead. She was lying in the penthouse suite of the Waldorf Astoria, staring at Ansel's sleeping face. She had returned to exactly five years ago-the day her stepsister and boyfriend drugged her and set her up for a ruinous sex scandal. Hearing the chaotic footsteps of paparazzi approaching the door, a murderous hatred flooded her chest. This time, the real reckoning had just begun.”