The Unwanted Heiress: Mr. Sterling's Obsession

Chapter 2

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n table. She picked up a box of matches

scented candle. The small fire illuminated a

dge of the wooden frame. Her chest rose and fel

pped to her knees and reached under the frame. Her fingers hooked around the

x was filled with old sweate

rd, pressing the fabric flat, and set it aside. She repeated

r fingers brushed against some

teeth were cut in a complex, jagged pattern. It was a hi

iler. There was nothing in this r

und echoed from outsi

e cold metal rested against her forearm. She moved to the w

through the

three-piece suit, a charcoal gray overcoat, and a bl

hat and bowed deep

ediately. Jacob Wright.

, slid the deadbolt ba

ng wallpaper and the cheap furniture. His ey

led out a heavy object wrapped in blac

bundle. She unw

ved with intricate vines. There was no keyhole. The top

nal breath," Jacob said. His voice was a lo

ial. She tried to turn it. The dial d

open it?"

ation. But there is a self-destruct mechanism i

ox. Her eyes locked onto h

ur upcoming twentieth

e asked. "Does this ha

upward, and his grip on the cane tigh

ll bleed," Ja

k back. A black sedan idled at the end of the dirt path.

d back to the table and set the

lickering light. The edges of the numbers were worn smooth

s, her mind already runnin

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The Unwanted Heiress: Mr. Sterling's Obsession

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“After my grandmother passed away, the wealthy Beaumont family finally tracked me down to my rundown trailer park. They didn't come to welcome me home. My cousins threw a check in my face, demanding my signature to liquidate a billion-dollar offshore trust before mocking my cheap clothes. But what they didn't know was the secret my grandmother left behind. Inside a hidden rosewood box, I found the brutal truth. My mother didn't die in a simple car crash. She was murdered, and my own father's family was behind it. When I tried to dig into the dark web to find the killer, a massive corporate counter-hack wiped the trail clean. Before I could even leave town, my aunt sent four armed thugs to ambush my bus. They thought I was just a desperate, helpless orphan who would quietly disappear. I didn't understand why my own blood relatives wanted us dead so badly. What exactly was my mother hiding that made the Beaumonts willing to shatter her skull and hunt me down like an animal? I broke the hitmen's bones, wiped the blood from my hands, and boarded the flight to New York. It is time to make the Beaumont family pay in blood. And the ruthless billionaire sitting next to me-who has no idea I am the legendary underground surgeon he is desperately searching for-will be my perfect weapon.”