The Ruined Bride of Velvet Nights by Brick Moving Ant

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Chapter 8

[This girl is PSYCHO. How tf is she only 19?!?]

[Someone LOCK HER UP! This isn’t just bullying, it’s attempted MURDER!]

Under the tsunami of public pressure, Shane and his crew finally cracked. In a hastily arranged press conference, they admitted Victoria had paid them not just to traumatize me, but to ensure I “wouldn’t be a problem anymore.”

Her exact instructions: make it look like an accident.

This bombshell detonated across social media. Dozens of former classmates emerged from the woodwork, posting their own Victoria horror stories.

“Valentina helped me learn combinations when I first transferred,” one wrote. “Meanwhile, Victoria was putting thumbtacks in people’s pointe shoes.”

Far from being her victim, I’d been her obsession–she’d sabotaged auditions, slashed my costumes, and planted rumors with visiting choreographers that had cost me professional opportunities.

The backlash was merciless. #Victoria WintersIsOverParty trended for days.

American Ballet maintains the highest standards of

staff member’s phone captured Victoria’s meltdown when she received the news. The leaked video

DOES EVERYONE LOVE HER?!” she shrieked, hurling a vase against the wall. “SHE’S NOTHING! NOTHING! I’M THE TALENTED ONE!”

pitch. “She stole everything from me! Everything that should have been MINE! I should have been Maxwell Dagonet’s daughter! I’LL

vicious takedowns: “Honey, your mom was literally screwing a married man

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your own daughter/sister because your mistress’s kid was jealous?

history of calculated destruction: anonymous bullying accounts, blackmail schemes,

leading to protesters outside her apartment building with signs reading “HOME WRECKER” and

PROXY.”

I feel vindicated?

universe was simply balancing

was seeing Dad and Caspian huddled outside the Geneva

completely reconstructed face,

had gone steel gray, his designer suit

“I’ve destroyed everything. I was

you from competing with Victoria. I swear to God, I

Val, I never