The Dancer's Ruin, The Heiress' Rise

The Dancer's Ruin, The Heiress' Rise

Gavin

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The world came back in pieces – white ceilings, antiseptics, and screaming pain in my legs. Just scant hours earlier, I was a dancer, living a dream. I' d secured the lead role with the most prestigious company, my future dazzling bright. Then, the alley. The cold pavement. Shadows that became men, their grunts, their laughter, and the blinding pain that extinguished my world. Now, a steady beep. I was alive, but my body felt like a broken prison. That' s when I heard their voices outside my hospital room. My fiancé, Ethan, and my brother, Caleb. The two men I trusted most. Their words were a poison, chilling me to the bone: "The job is done, Caleb. They did exactly what we paid them to do... She' s out of the picture." My mind reeled. Paid them? The men who did this to me? It couldn't be. Hallucinations from a head injury, surely. But then, Ethan' s voice, sharp and cruel: "Think about what's at stake. The inheritance. Sophia's future... Ava was in the way." My own brother, complicit. The protectors I relied on were the monsters who brutalized me. And the doctor' s grave prognosis confirmed my worst fears: "She will never dance again." Ethan' s sigh of relief, Caleb' s chilling agreement to "standard care only," condemned me to a life of pain and disability, ensuring my ruin. They were chaining me to a fate worse than death itself. I was meant to be their broken doll, a pawn in their twisted game. But as a single tear traced a path down my temple, a silent fury ignited. I wasn't just observing. I was watching. And I was going to make them pay.

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The world came back in pieces – white ceilings, antiseptics, and screaming pain in my legs.

Just scant hours earlier, I was a dancer, living a dream. I' d secured the lead role with the most prestigious company, my future dazzling bright.

Then, the alley. The cold pavement. Shadows that became men, their grunts, their laughter, and the blinding pain that extinguished my world.

Now, a steady beep. I was alive, but my body felt like a broken prison.

That' s when I heard their voices outside my hospital room. My fiancé, Ethan, and my brother, Caleb. The two men I trusted most.

Their words were a poison, chilling me to the bone: "The job is done, Caleb. They did exactly what we paid them to do... She' s out of the picture."

My mind reeled. Paid them? The men who did this to me? It couldn't be. Hallucinations from a head injury, surely.

But then, Ethan' s voice, sharp and cruel: "Think about what's at stake. The inheritance. Sophia's future... Ava was in the way."

My own brother, complicit. The protectors I relied on were the monsters who brutalized me.

And the doctor' s grave prognosis confirmed my worst fears: "She will never dance again."

Ethan' s sigh of relief, Caleb' s chilling agreement to "standard care only," condemned me to a life of pain and disability, ensuring my ruin.

They were chaining me to a fate worse than death itself. I was meant to be their broken doll, a pawn in their twisted game.

But as a single tear traced a path down my temple, a silent fury ignited. I wasn't just observing. I was watching. And I was going to make them pay.

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