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Chapter 6

Thirty minutes later, Victoria’s “kidnapping” was blowing up across every platform–Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, even making breaking news on local stations.

In the livestream, her face appeared dramatically swollen from staged slaps, tears streaming perfectly as she sobbed: “Daddy! Caspian! Please help me–they’re going to kill me!”

Right on cue, her “kidnapper” made the planned slip, revealing me as the mastermind.

“Valentina Dagonet’s paying us good money for this,” a distorted voice growled, then feigned alarm. “Fuck–you didn’t hear that.”

Victoria seized the moment with remarkable theatricality. “Val, I understand you’re devastated about losing your spot at SAB. I know you resent me, but please–I forgive you! Let me go, not because I’m scared to die, but because I can’t bear to watch you destroy yourself like this!”

Dad joined the emergency livestream, his face twisted with fury as he shouted my name.

“VALENTINA! Release Victoria NOW! This has nothing to do with her–if you want revenge, come

after me instead!”

Caspian jumped in, his voice cracking with emotion: “Val, stop this insanity! What would Mom think seeing you like this? How could she ever rest in peace knowing what you’ve become?”

The hypocrisy was almost comical. They orchestrated my destruction, yet somehow I was the

villain?

Online, #Valentina TheMonster and #JusticeForVictoria were trending nationwide. Self–appointed vigilantes vowed to track my location and “make me pay” for my alleged crimes.

I’d originally planned to handle this quietly.

production had just hit #1 on every trending list, with news networks

the story.

and uploaded the security footage showing

the truth

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the evidence, I powered down my phone, uninterested in the

distinguished gentleman sitting beside me in the Rolls–Royce Phantom gently placed his hand on mine. “Ne t’inquiète pas, ma chérie.

that contemptible excuse for a father,” his voice hardened, the French accent becoming more pronounced, “I will use every resource of the Rousseau Group to ensure he never recovers.”

exhaustion washing over me. “Merci,

his steel–blue eyes softened. “If only Élise were still

horrible lies about my own daughter. I let that bastard Dagonet turn me against

come for

rarely grants second

window, watching Paris recede as we headed to the private airfield.

to Ukraine. Despite growing up

Stanford.

twenty, her biological parents finally located her after seventeen

maternal grandfather, was the chairman of the Rousseau Group, France’s oldest luxury conglomerate and one of Europe’s most powerful business empires. After losing his daughter, he’d adopted another girl to

found too late, while another had already taken

happened between Mom and the Rousseaus.

only knew that after marrying Dad, she severed

revealed to anyone that her father controlled one

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empires.

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