rain passing straight through her translucent hands. Below

the rear door of the armored Maybach, and a custom matte-black wheelchair lowered onto the asphalt via a hydraulic lift. Flanked by eight imposing guards s

Ever since she was dragged back from the slums, Charisse had poisoned her ears daily: "That crippled monster is a savage! If you marry him, he'll torture you to death! Mom and Dad only ad

above at this very mome

cked entirely onto her corpse. He lifted his chin slightl

e child's remains from Mou

rds past the police line and lifted Alyce's body in

rrifying tyrant. Yet in death-after her family betrayed her and her husband murdered her daughter-the only pers

ged on his knuckles. He squeezed his eyes shut for a secon

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a violent suction yanked Alyce's floatin

across her left wrist, slamming h

as

nlight streamed across a thick Persian rug. She looked down-bright red blood was welling rapid

s the room, a pale, unscar

noon she had slit her wrist to protest

ody in the rain crashed through her mind. Reaching up with her right hand, she ripped a silk tie-back off the curtain, wr

en her a second chance, every single debt

the hallway outside, follow

e! Get the spare key! Don't let that dirty rat fro

the servants treated the true heiress like dirt-over the past six months,

this

her bleeding left hand behind her back, and opened the door. Three mai

o the crimson drops staining th

thur right now! What a shameless piece of trash, always

the wall. The moment his heavy hand reached for her shoulder, she pivoted. Her right hand sh

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screaming as excruciating pain paralyzed him. Alyce

eir jaws hanging-was this really the same timid, stuttering

e date stared back in bright whit

y smile curving her lips. Then she turned, dragging her bleeding wrist, and strode

arisse's fake saintly mask piece by piece, walk proudly over the spines of the Br