Chapter 4

Victoria’s eyes gleamed with venom as she leaned closer. “If I were you, I’d honestly just off myself. It would save everyone the trouble of looking at your fucked–up face.”

She waited eagerly for my reaction, desperate to see me crumble.

But I felt nothing. My heart was a dead thing in my chest. The Dagonet name meant nothing to me

now.

“I’ll leave. Take it all if you want it so badly.”

Victoria let out a high–pitched laugh. “God, you’re pathetic. While you’ve been getting your ass handed to you, I absolutely killed my SAB audition. Got my acceptance yesterday.” She tapped my wheelchair with her foot. “As for you… enjoy rolling around for the rest of your worthless life.”

Her voice dropped to a cruel whisper. “But that’s still not enough. I need them to hate you as much as

I do.”

Before I could process what was happening, she whipped out a small pocketknife and slashed her own cheek with practiced precision.

As she crumpled to the floor in a perfectly executed fall, Victoria hissed in my ear: “FYI, Daddy dearest only wanted those guys to rough you up a little. I’m the one who paid them extra to make sure you’d never dance again…”

Something cold and primal flashed in my eyes.

A heartbeat later, Victoria’s bloodcurdling screams echoed through the hospital.

Dad burst through the door, slamming my wheelchair aside as he rushed to Victoria’s side.

Jesus Christ,

barked at my doctors: “Help her!

even glanced at me lying on the floor, fresh blood seeping through my bandages.

streaming down in

Chapter 4

manufactured fear.

how s–sorry I was about everything! Please, Val, please forgive me!

expression transformed into pure

of her heart, and you ATTACK

pure disgust. “You really are a psychotic bitch, aren’t you? Maybe those guys didn’t

job.”

out, rushing her toward treatment as if she

Perfect.

nothing to each other anyway.

hovering over Victoria during examinations, only remembering I existed after confirming her superficial scratch

glanced at Caspian. “Swing by Ladurée and grab some of those raspberry macarons Val likes. She’s probably throwing a tantrum after getting

ten minutes later, Dad’s phone lit

She left some kind of suicide note. And the major shareholders

Uber, I watched through the hospital’s security feed as Dad crashed into

grabbed a passing nurse by her scrubs. “Where the fuck

hand

That girl has suffered catastrophic

heard what you people said to her.”

have the audacity to demand answers? How

saw, she was sitting alone, sobbing her heart out while you

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