The True Heiress Returns With A Vengeance

f an abandoned warehouse, and the two people

trembling fingers closed around its edge, lifting it to catch the dirty light spilling from a high, grimy window. The face that

eiress to the Miller fortune. But that girl was gone, destroyed by

d just outside. A car door slammed. Then came

rt began to hammer against her r

ossible elegance. She was wearing Adina's graduate collection centerpiece-a gown of midnight

ing his tailored jacket over Ashlyn's shoulders. His gaze swept over Adina's crumpled,

red from her fingers, landing just out of reach. An asset transfer agreement. "You always did have a flair for

but the acid had stolen her voice

left wide open. A few bad investments for your father, a few key people bribed to look away..." He shr

left hand. A massive diamond glittered in the gloom. "He bough

mmoned the last of her strength, her fingers scrabbling across the floor until they snagge

re is my

ing cloud of jasmine and something sharp, metallic. "Oh, Gigi?" she murmured, her voice a cruel care

nes-it all vanished. A raw heat coiled in her stomach, burning away everything but a

flying backward. Her head cracked against the concrete

n disgust. "Ugh. She ruined the hem." She pulled a syr

hemical chill spread through her veins, extinguishing everything. Her body convulsed. Her vision blurred. The last thing

t burned through the fading static of

stant voice echoed. "T

old of the river closing over her head. The water swallowed her, pul

. And in that void,

ced by a chaotic symphony of noise-chatter, laugh

tificial, overwhelming.

front of a brightly lit makeup mirror, surrounded by backsta

her jaw, her lips. No scars. No pain. Her lungs drew a clean, easy breath. Her hear

n the vanity. She snatched it up. The

ay Zane had proposed. The

was