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w and burning. Her body was a roadmap of agony-every bruise, every cut, every place the boots had f
l slammed down
ked with a si
aded on her forehead. But she didn't make a s
with venomous sweetness. "This was all his idea, you know. He's only one step away from completely controlling the family. A
t her ribs, a frantic, trapped bird. "I don't believ
with her. So tender. H
ne's phone-the custom-made one Brant had given her-and tossed i
Sophia sneered. "The
feline. Her fingers, slick with her own blood, fu
through the sil
ice. Thr
w, merciless: "The number you have dialed
ialed
th
ai
th
ll drove another k
answered. It was Sophia's, already recorded into his voicemail greeting, gi
ped from Vivie
grinding the screen into glitte
you believe me now? Brant has never loved you. Did you really think a girl from nowhere could marry into a family like his? His heart has always belong
away another layer
e could barely walk. Pouring her youth, her family connections, her very soul into build
loving and not loving
esson with her body broken
deep that she co
Sophia. Several sets of them. Rough men w
calm. "To make sure you perform well for our guest," she announced, her voice c
d lazily to
her. Howeve
lit up with p
thed, licking his lips. "M
, her smile n
the permissio
lun
hit her skin. She kicked. She screamed. She bit down on th
anded her across the face so har
and I'll break your fucking jaw. Play
e would not
Nails. Anything. She clawed at their faces, kicked at their groins, bit any flesh that came within
uldn't
stance only
ed out of her lungs in a silent gasp. Pain ex
led, grabbing her hair and smashing
ice. Thr
ed at the edges, th
stood silhouetted against the sudden light. She couldn't see hi
Brant's elusive,
gued with him, fiercely defending Brant in h
, to beg for help. Her lips
r the final blow, her vision was filled with nothing but
in... I would never let t
nged into abs
suddenly, it w
's voice, laced with familiar impatience. "Vivienne, w
sitting in the plush leather passenger seat of Brant's Bentley,
her nails perfectly manicured. She was wearing the Chanel
live. She
s tone annoyed. "Come on, V
e adored now seemed like a grotesque mask. All the pain, all the betrayal, all the hatred from a
ised h
th in her body, she sla
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