No Mercy For Traitors: The Kingman's Vengeance

No Mercy For Traitors: The Kingman's Vengeance

Sumner Upsdell

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Ava Kingman, heir to a formidable but fading legacy, stepped into the glittering Zenith Club, a venue once synonymous with her family's name. She was there for a quiet night supporting her visibly pregnant sister, Chloe. But the supposed celebration turned into a public spectacle when Chloe's fiancé, Chad, with his mistress Krystal, dragged her onto a makeshift stage. They announced a twisted "paternity game," taking open bets on Chloe's unborn child, parading her most private and humiliating photos on a giant screen. Marcus Thorne, the club owner and her father's former protégé, not only allowed it but actively endorsed this public humiliation. The "new money" crowd, who once paid homage to her family, now openly sneered, declaring the Kingmans "ancient history." Ava, the silent heir to a forgotten empire, found herself restrained, forced to watch as her pregnant sister was brought to her knees for a humiliating DNA sample. Her pleas for intervention were met with scorn, her Kingman authority card derided as a "cheap fake." How could the Kingman name, once synonymous with power, be so utterly disgraced? How could Thorne, a man her father had raised, sink to such depths? The humiliation was suffocating, the betrayal chilling, and within Ava, a silent, white-hot fury began to ignite-a fire no one present had ever witnessed. They thought she was weak, a relic, an easy target. They were catastrophically wrong. Tonight, the Kingman dynasty was about to be reborn, in fire and thunder.

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Ava Kingman, heir to a formidable but fading legacy, stepped into the glittering Zenith Club, a venue once synonymous with her family's name.

She was there for a quiet night supporting her visibly pregnant sister, Chloe.

But the supposed celebration turned into a public spectacle when Chloe's fiancé, Chad, with his mistress Krystal, dragged her onto a makeshift stage.

They announced a twisted "paternity game," taking open bets on Chloe's unborn child, parading her most private and humiliating photos on a giant screen.

Marcus Thorne, the club owner and her father's former protégé, not only allowed it but actively endorsed this public humiliation.

The "new money" crowd, who once paid homage to her family, now openly sneered, declaring the Kingmans "ancient history."

Ava, the silent heir to a forgotten empire, found herself restrained, forced to watch as her pregnant sister was brought to her knees for a humiliating DNA sample.

Her pleas for intervention were met with scorn, her Kingman authority card derided as a "cheap fake."

How could the Kingman name, once synonymous with power, be so utterly disgraced?

How could Thorne, a man her father had raised, sink to such depths?

The humiliation was suffocating, the betrayal chilling, and within Ava, a silent, white-hot fury began to ignite-a fire no one present had ever witnessed.

They thought she was weak, a relic, an easy target.

They were catastrophically wrong.

Tonight, the Kingman dynasty was about to be reborn, in fire and thunder.

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