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.

maintains the highest standards of personal

when she received the news. The leaked video spread like wildfire.

shrieked, hurling a vase against

everything from me! Everything that should have been MINE! I should have been Maxwell Dagonet’s daughter! I’LL FUCKING END HER! I SWEAR TO

exploded with vicious takedowns: “Honey, your mom was literally screwing a married man for 20 years. You’re the side piece’s kid. Stay in your lane.”

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“The father and brother are the real villains. Imagine TORTURING your own daughter/sister because your mistress’s kid was jealous? Electric chair for all

anonymous bullying accounts, blackmail schemes, even

to protesters outside her

PROXY.”

feel vindicated? Not particularly.

universe was simply

seeing Dad and Caspian huddled outside the Geneva clinic on my discharge day, looking like they’d aged

face, they recognized me

gone steel gray, his designer suit hanging off his frame like

I-” He struggled visibly. “I’ve destroyed everything. I was blind. So

you from competing with Victoria. I swear to God,

never imagined… Jesus Christ, Val, I never wanted this…”