Reborn Heiress: Too Late For Your Apology

w could you hire someone to kidnap m

splitting pain shot through her temples, followed by the cloying scent of lilies and ch

ed her e

n innocence, hovered above her. Her manicured fing

m, the glittering chandeliers, Ciara's crocodile

ing of the end. The day her life had been syst

d been

er. He let the kidnappers disfigure Eveline, break her limbs, and inject her with excruciatin

edo. His handsome face was a sculpture of ice. The look in his eyes wasn't one of concern or confusion

void of any warmth, "I never

e it was being ripped from her chest. She had sobbed, pleaded, tried de

her, the kind of calm that comes after a devastating storm has leveled everything to

cry. She di

with her free hand and began to pry C

stared, momentarily stunned by the dead, unfamil

ing none of the weakness of someone who had just been "rescued." She scanned the room, her ga

nt, mocking smile touched her lips. It wasn

brow furrowed, and a flicker of unease crossed his

ine's voice was clear and calm, cutting t

This was not the reaction anyone had expect

opped, now flowed with renewed vigor. "Sister, what are you

t cut Ciara off mid-sentence. "Don't call m

laundry aired for all of New York's high society to see. Several

ard, his presence commanding. "Eveline, that's en

ing. She looked at him, truly looked at him, for the first time since her awakening. She saw not the man s

whisper, yet every person in the silent hall heard

terics, for begging, for more pathetic denials. He h

t have misheard.

was steady, each word a perfectly formed stone

ossed Ciara's face before she could m

, more frantic. The drama had just escala

the blow. A harsh, incredulous laugh escaped his lips.

e line he'd used to keep

before him was not the

r voice dripping with contempt, "than spe

t was an act of finality, a severing of a bond

that from this moment on, she was t

king toward the grand entrance of