From Surgeon's Hands to Avenging Fire

From Surgeon's Hands to Avenging Fire

Xing Jiayi

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The world knew me as Dr. Brenna Mann, the neurosurgeon with hands insured for millions. My husband, Davis, was a powerful lawyer, and our life was perfect-until he shattered it. He protected his secret lover, Kiley, after she killed my mother in a hit-and-run. Then, to silence me, he had his family' s dogs maul my hand, ending my career forever. He didn't stop there. He fabricated a video that drove my innocent sister to suicide, then held her fate over my head to force me to save his lover's mother. He took everything-my mother, my hand, my career, and my sister. The man I had vowed to love was a monster wearing my husband's skin. He thought he had broken me, leaving me kneeling in public humiliation. He was wrong. He had only created a monster of his own, one with a brilliant mind and a billionaire's backing, ready to burn his world to the ground.

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: Brenna Mann, Davis Lawrence and Kiley Davenport

From Surgeon's Hands to Avenging Fire Chapter 1

The world knew me as Dr. Brenna Mann, the neurosurgeon with hands insured for millions. My husband, Davis, was a powerful lawyer, and our life was perfect-until he shattered it.

He protected his secret lover, Kiley, after she killed my mother in a hit-and-run. Then, to silence me, he had his family' s dogs maul my hand, ending my career forever.

He didn't stop there. He fabricated a video that drove my innocent sister to suicide, then held her fate over my head to force me to save his lover's mother.

He took everything-my mother, my hand, my career, and my sister. The man I had vowed to love was a monster wearing my husband's skin.

He thought he had broken me, leaving me kneeling in public humiliation. He was wrong. He had only created a monster of his own, one with a brilliant mind and a billionaire's backing, ready to burn his world to the ground.

Chapter 1

Brenna Mann POV:

The world knew me as Dr. Brenna Mann, the neurosurgeon with hands insured for millions. My life was perfect, until it shattered into a million pieces.

I held my breath.

The stench of dog-a mix of wet fur, stale blood, and something metallic-clung to the air in this godforsaken place. My left hand, or what was left of it, throbbed. The pain was a dull, constant drumbeat against the phantom agony of missing fingers. They said I' d never operate again. They were right.

I saw him then, leaning against the rusty fence, his silhouette stark against the weak light filtering in from the single high window. Davis. My husband.

He watched me, his eyes cold, devoid of the warmth that once made me believe in fairy tales. The same eyes that had once promised me forever. He wasn' t just observing; he was presiding. Over my destruction.

His lips quirked into a ghost of a smile, a cruel twist that sent a shiver down my spine. It was a smile that belonged to a predator, not a husband. Not the man who once whispered sweet nothings in my ear.

"Brenna," his voice cut through the silence, flat and emotionless. "Still so defiant."

He took a slow drag from a cigar, the cherry glowing ominously in the dim light. The smoke curled around him, obscuring him for a moment, making him seem even more menacing.

I tried to speak, but only a ragged gasp escaped my throat. My body was a battlefield, every muscle protesting, every nerve screaming. The dogs that had done this to me, his family' s vicious guard dogs, were still pacing in their pens, their low growls a constant reminder of my helplessness. Their teeth had ripped through my flesh, tearing away not just my hand, but my future.

I heard it again then, the faint, distant sound that had been haunting my waking hours, a sound that twisted my insides with a fresh wave of nausea.

A high-pitched, desperate sob. Fabiola. My sister.

She was in the room next door, locked away, suffering because of him. I could hear her muffled cries through the thin wall, each one a fresh stab to my already broken heart.

"Fabiola isn' t doing so well," Davis said, blowing a smoke ring that dissolved into the stale air. He watched me, gauging my reaction. "She' s quite distraught about... the video."

The video. The fabricated, reputation-destroying video he' d threatened to release. And then had.

My mind raced back, scrambling for answers, for any explanation for this nightmare.

"Why, Davis?" I choked out, the words raw and painful. "Why are you doing this?"

He laughed, a dry, humorless sound that echoed in the concrete chamber. "You know why, Brenna."

He took another puff of his cigar. "Kiley Davenport killed your mother, Brenna. She was drunk. She hit your mother and left her for dead on the side of the road."

My mother. My gentle, loving mother. The memory of the phone call, the earth-shattering news, still felt like a fresh wound.

"I tried to go through the proper channels," I said, my voice barely a whisper. "I tried to find justice."

I had. I had pushed and pleaded, hired investigators, but every door had been slammed shut in my face. Every lead had gone cold. Davis, the powerful corporate lawyer, had used his connections, his money, his influence, to ensure that Kiley, his secret lover, walked free. He' d orchestrated a cover-up so elaborate, so airtight, that the police had eventually pinned the hit-and-run on an innocent drifter.

I remember the day I received the letter from the hospital. My termination. My career, my identity, ripped away from me. They cited a vague "loss of professional standing." Davis' s doing, I knew. He wanted to strip me of everything, to make me utterly dependent.

Now, only one person could save Kiley' s mother, who had suffered a sudden, severe aneurysm. A complex, life-threatening surgery, one that only a handful of neurosurgeons in the world could perform.

And I was one of them.

"You' re a monster, Davis," I spat, the words laced with pure venom.

He merely shrugged. "Perhaps. But you will perform the surgery, Brenna. Or Fabiola' s video, which has already gone viral, will be the least of your worries."

He nodded towards the muffled sobs coming from the next room. My sister, my innocent, college-aged sister, was being threatened. Her life was already destroyed by his malicious online smear campaign. And he was holding her fate, her very existence, in his hands.

I closed my eyes, a single tear tracing a path through the grime on my face. My mother was gone. My career was over. And now, my sister' s life hung by a thread.

This was the man I had married. The man I had loved. The man I had vowed to spend my life with.

No, this was not the man I married. This was a monster wearing his skin.

"You will regret this," I whispered, a promise rather than a threat. Even to my own ears, my voice sounded hollow, broken.

But he just chuckled, a sound that chilled me to the bone. "I doubt it."

He turned to leave, his footsteps echoing in the cavernous space.

"Davis!" I screamed, a raw, primal sound ripped from my gut. "What kind of man does this to his own wife?"

He paused at the door, turning his head slightly. His eyes, in that fleeting moment, held a flicker of something I couldn' t quite decipher-pity? Regret? No. It was a cold, calculating victory.

"The kind who gets what he wants, Brenna," he said, his voice flat, definitive. "Always."

And then he was gone, the heavy door clanging shut behind him, plunging me back into the suffocating darkness, leaving me alone with the ghosts of my past and the screams of my sister.

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“The world knew me as Dr. Brenna Mann, the neurosurgeon with hands insured for millions. My husband, Davis, was a powerful lawyer, and our life was perfect-until he shattered it. He protected his secret lover, Kiley, after she killed my mother in a hit-and-run. Then, to silence me, he had his family' s dogs maul my hand, ending my career forever. He didn't stop there. He fabricated a video that drove my innocent sister to suicide, then held her fate over my head to force me to save his lover's mother. He took everything-my mother, my hand, my career, and my sister. The man I had vowed to love was a monster wearing my husband's skin. He thought he had broken me, leaving me kneeling in public humiliation. He was wrong. He had only created a monster of his own, one with a brilliant mind and a billionaire's backing, ready to burn his world to the ground.”
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