From Blood Bank To Billionaire's Obsession

From Blood Bank To Billionaire's Obsession

Elizabeth

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I was the poor girl from Appalachia the wealthy Copeland family adopted out of "charity," bringing me to a life of New York luxury I could never have imagined. But it was all a lie. I wasn't their daughter. I was a living, breathing blood bank for their precious child, Bridgette, whose life had been secretly saved by my bone marrow. Once I was no longer useful, they decided to throw me away. On the night of Bridgette's lavish engagement party, she and her fiancé framed me. They drugged my water, lured me to a hotel suite, and tore my designer gown to stage a scene. Her fiancé stood over me, his face twisted in disgust. "Did you really think spreading your legs would make me forget where you came from? You're just a trashy hillbilly." Outside on Fifth Avenue, my adoptive parents screamed at me in front of the press, calling me a disgrace. My sister wept, accusing me of trying to destroy her perfect life out of jealousy. They expected me to crumble, to become the pathetic scandal they could discard like garbage. They thought they were dealing with a scared, helpless girl from the mountains. But they made a fatal mistake. The soul of that poor girl was already gone. And I, the top-tier operative known as Glacier, had just woken up in her body.

From Blood Bank To Billionaire's Obsession Chapter 1 1

The sharp, suffocating scent of Tom Ford cologne pierced through the heavy fog in Alanis's brain.

Her eyes snapped open.

She was lying fully dressed atop a massive king-sized bed in a suite at The Plaza. The silk sheets felt cold and foreign against the delicate fabric of her haute couture evening gown.

For a moment, she didn't know where she was. The room swam in her vision-chandeliers, mahogany, the distant hum of traffic through soundproofed windows. Then the memories crashed back. Bridgette's sweet smile. The glass of champagne. The slow, insidious pull of whatever they had put in her drink.

She tried to sit up. Her body felt wrong-heavy, sluggish, as if someone had replaced her blood with molasses. But beneath that fog, something else was stirring. Something sharp. Something cold.

Training.

The word surfaced from somewhere deep, accompanied by a flood of images she didn't recognize. A woman's hands showing her how to find a pulse point. A voice-calm, patient, urgent-explaining the anatomy of a wrist lock. The smell of gun oil and night air and fear.

Alanis pressed her palms against the mattress and pushed herself upright. Her head pounded, but her hands were steady. That was new. That was... not hers.

Before her vision even fully cleared, her body reacted. Her breathing slowed. Her muscles coiled. Her heart rate dropped to something mechanical, something deliberate.

She didn't understand what was happening to her. But she understood, with absolute certainty, that she was no longer the girl who had walked into this hotel room.

"You disgust me."

The harsh voice came from above her.

Ashley Mathis stood beside the bed, glaring down at her. His face was twisted in a sneer of pure contempt. He aggressively adjusted the cuffs of his tailored suit, a nervous habit that screamed of his Wall Street arrogance.

"Did you really think spreading your legs would make me forget where you came from?" Ashley spat, his voice echoing in the luxurious room. "You're just a trashy hillbilly from Appalachia. You have no shame."

Alanis stared at him. She didn't blink. Her mind-her new mind-was already calculating. Distance to his throat: two point four feet. Dominant hand: right. Weight distribution: forward, aggressive, off-balance.

She had never thought like this before. But the knowledge was there, as if it had been sleeping inside her for years and had finally woken up.

Ashley mistook her silence for fear. He reached out roughly, his fingers digging into the delicate fabric of her haute couture evening gown.

He yanked hard.

The sickening sound of tearing silk ripped through the quiet suite. The strap of her dress gave way, exposing her collarbone to the cold air.

That sound was the trigger.

Alanis's body moved before her conscious thought even registered the command.

Her left hand shot up like a striking viper. She grabbed Ashley's wrist, her thumb pressing violently into the radial nerve pulse point-a target she knew, somehow, without ever having been taught.

"Ah!" Ashley let out a sharp cry of pain. He tried to jerk his arm back, his eyes widening in sudden shock.

He couldn't move an inch. Her grip was like a steel vise.

Using his own momentum against him, Alanis twisted her body and rolled off the mattress. She landed on the thick carpet with the silent grace of a predator.

She kept her grip on his wrist, twisting his arm backward until the shoulder joint locked with a sickening pop.

Ashley gasped for air, his face turning pale.

Without a second of hesitation, Alanis drove her knee upward in a brutal, precise strike. The bone connected directly with his solar plexus.

All the air left Ashley's lungs in a violent rush.

He lost the ability to breathe. His legs gave out, and he collapsed to his knees on the floor, clutching his stomach. He choked, his mouth opening and closing like a dying fish.

Alanis stood over him. She looked down at the elite Wall Street golden boy, her eyes completely devoid of human warmth.

Ashley stared up at her. The arrogance in his eyes had been entirely replaced by raw, unadulterated terror. He couldn't understand how this fragile girl had just dismantled him in three seconds.

Alanis didn't understand either. Not fully. But as she looked at him, something else surfaced from the depths of her memory-images that weren't quite images, feelings that weren't quite her own.

The extraction room. The needles. Bridgette's smile, bright and poisonous, on the days when Alanis was too weak to stand.

And before that-fragments of another life. A woman with calloused hands and tired eyes, whispering instructions in the dark. "If they ever come for you, if they ever try to use you, remember what I taught you. Your body is a weapon. Your mind is a fortress. They can take your blood, but they can never take what you know."

Alanis released Ashley's wrist, flicking her hand in disgust as if she had just touched rotting garbage.

Her sharp eyes scanned the room and locked onto a cheap, unfamiliar smartphone resting on the mahogany nightstand. She picked it up. The screen was cracked, but it was unlocked. She quickly opened the messaging app. A single sent text glared back at her: sent at exactly 8:14 PM to Ashley's number, luring him here. She memorized the burner number ending in 7492 and the timestamp.

Then her fingers flew across the shattered screen.

She had never used a phone like this. She had never written a line of code in her life. But her hands moved as if they had done this a thousand times-accessing the hotel's network, planting a backdoor, setting a trigger. The knowledge flowed through her like water finding its level, like a language she had spoken in another life and was only now remembering.

She pocketed the device and turned her back on him.

Her bare feet made no sound on the carpet as she walked toward the floor-to-ceiling mirror across the room.

She stopped and stared at the reflection.

A pale face. High cheekbones. Dark hair. Familiar-this was her face, the one she had seen in mirrors her whole life. But her eyes were different. There was something behind them now that hadn't been there this morning. A coldness. A calculation. A readiness.

She ran her hands over her ribs and limbs. Her body was still the same-thin, depleted, scarred from years of medical procedures. But something inside it had changed. Something fundamental.

The training was always there, she realized. Helena put it there, and I forgot. Until now.

She grabbed the torn edges of the silk gown and tied a tight, practical knot over her shoulder to secure it.

She didn't spare a single glance at Ashley, who was still groaning and dry-heaving on the floor.

Alanis walked straight to the heavy mahogany door.

She gripped the brass handle and pulled it open. The thick door swung wide with a muffled thud.

She stepped out into the hallway. The thick wool carpet swallowed the sound of her footsteps.

The dim, warm light from the wall sconces made her narrow her eyes as they adjusted to the new environment.

Out of the corner of her eye, she caught sight of a Renaissance-era oil painting hanging on the wall.

She stopped. Her sharp gaze locked onto the canvas. It was The Fortune Teller.

The calculating, dead-eyed stare of the woman in the painting seemed to look straight through her. And for a moment, Alanis saw another face superimposed over it-a woman's face, older, wearier, with the same dark hair and the same tired eyes.

Helena.

Her mother. The woman who had died when Alanis was too young to remember. The woman who, according to the Copelands, had been nothing but trash from the mountains.

But the skills flooding Alanis's mind told a different story. Helena hadn't been trash. She had been something else entirely. Something dangerous. Something the Copelands had wanted to use and bury.

Alanis pushed the thought aside. There would be time for answers later. First, she had to survive the night.

Suddenly, the heavy silence of the hallway was broken.

The chaotic, aggressive sound of leather boots stomping against the carpet echoed from the far end of the corridor.

Alanis slowly turned her head. Her fingers twitched, ready for whatever came next.

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“I was the poor girl from Appalachia the wealthy Copeland family adopted out of "charity," bringing me to a life of New York luxury I could never have imagined. But it was all a lie. I wasn't their daughter. I was a living, breathing blood bank for their precious child, Bridgette, whose life had been secretly saved by my bone marrow. Once I was no longer useful, they decided to throw me away. On the night of Bridgette's lavish engagement party, she and her fiancé framed me. They drugged my water, lured me to a hotel suite, and tore my designer gown to stage a scene. Her fiancé stood over me, his face twisted in disgust. "Did you really think spreading your legs would make me forget where you came from? You're just a trashy hillbilly." Outside on Fifth Avenue, my adoptive parents screamed at me in front of the press, calling me a disgrace. My sister wept, accusing me of trying to destroy her perfect life out of jealousy. They expected me to crumble, to become the pathetic scandal they could discard like garbage. They thought they were dealing with a scared, helpless girl from the mountains. But they made a fatal mistake. The soul of that poor girl was already gone. And I, the top-tier operative known as Glacier, had just woken up in her body.”
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