Reborn Heiress: Escaping The Cheating Fiancé

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arm like a bolt of electricity. She bit her lower lip so hard she

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d across Christabel's cheek. A fresh li

about the Sanders family's

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cles refused to twitch. A wave of absol

e turned on her he

The booming sound echoed in the empty room

her parents and her brother flashed in

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a crawl. In the final second before her consciousnes

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flared in her lower abdomen. It rushe

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ed around the massive room. The velvet

l suite at the Grand Hot

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nto her thigh. The sharp pain cleared

s felt like jelly. She practicall

he freezing water and splashed it onto her face, over

es of the sink and

k had flawless skin.

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her own arm ruthlessly, using the sharp sting to force her trembling, jelly-like leg

the heavy panting of her lungs.

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k came from

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instantly. Gary. The tab

out and grabbed the heavy brass statue si

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two step

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e brought it down hard ag

k. He collapsed onto the thick carpet like a sack

ent down, grabbed the camera, and popped the memory car

g surge

st the wall to keep from falling. Her fingern

soon to check on the situati

g her teeth against the weakness in her limbs, she dr

his wrists and ankles together. She ripped

d the clo

ndows. She pulled the heavy drapes back just an i

lked toward the s

key from the top shelf. She was go

steps echoed in th

ushed, eager voice through

on her reven