Reborn: The Medical Heiress's Sweet Revenge

her forty-fifth year, and woke again

When she woke, she was sitting on the bed in the second-floor bedroom of Ashley Manor, morning light sting

she had called "sister" for twenty-five years, and the man she had l

aw before death, she

you really think Bert

. The iron door had just screeched shut behind her. Her polished high heels clicked against the w

y eyelids. Her skeletal fingers clenched the thin, mildewed blan

blue eyes, only cold mockery. For twenty-five years, this orphan girl who lived o

andkerchief in disgust. Under the dim bulb, the brown beauty mark beneath her right eye

pupils shrank. It was the master manual of the Santos family's autonom

e..." Alexis's lips trembled violently

iron basin beside the bed, the

e regulation formula out of you, why would a medical e

g away for twenty-five years flashed before her eyes. H

red fingernail hard into Alexis's bony

about you being assaulted at the

e drugged me

ands. He wanted to ruin your reputation so you coul

face, but her emaciated arm lost all strength m

skirt before pulling a photocopy of a birth certificate fro

raise, is my flesh and blood with Bertrand. You were just a b

split as tears mixed with blood rolled down her cheeks. She thought of the endless nights she spe

top of the stairs, his metal-rimmed glasses reflecting a cold light, the stub of

lexis raised her head to look at th

hecked his wristwatch, his tone as flat

or will be here soon to si

o Bertrand's arms,

medicine has kicked in. She

und Christy's waist, his lip

notary is coming tomorrow to co

ough up her organs. Twenty-five years of devotion, twenty-five years of self-deception, all turned in

stare, Bertrand frowned

those disgusting eyes.

ontrol, and her vision went black. Outside the basement, thund

of black blood sprayed from her lips. Before her consciousness faded into a blur of