Betrayed By Love, Reborn In Fire

Betrayed By Love, Reborn In Fire

Gavin

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Eleanor Vance, tech titaness, finally leaned back, champagne in hand, on her Monte Carlo terrace. Six months into hard-earned semi-retirement, her empire was thriving, and today, her daughter Sarah and son-in-law Mark were officially taking the reins. A notification shattered the peace. "VANCE TECH SHOCKER: NEW HEIRESS ANNOUNCED AS FOUNDER' S DAUGHTER BRANDED A FRAUD." Her blood ran cold as she saw the image: Mark, arm around a smug stranger named Lily Miller, the Vance Tech logo looming like a tombstone. Sarah' s phone went straight to voicemail. "Sarah, darling, it' s Mom. Call me back the second you get this." Mark answered, voice sickeningly cheerful. "Eleanor! Enjoying the Riviera, I hope?" Then, dropped a bombshell: "Sarah Vance is not, in fact, Eleanor Vance' s biological daughter. She is an illegitimate child... The true inheritor... is my daughter, Lily." Eleanor watched live footage: Sarah, her dress torn, screaming "He' s lying! I' m her daughter! Mom, he' s lying!" as security dragged her away. Mark' s smooth voice narrated: "Sarah has been... unwell." The camera zoomed on Sarah' s anguished face, then a guard shoved her out. The world vanished for Eleanor; only a burning rage remained. She hurled her glass, shattering it against the wall. "Get the jet ready," she commanded, voice dangerously calm. "Get me everything you can find on Jessica Brown and Lily Miller. Dig." "I' m going home," Eleanor vowed, her eyes like flint. "And I' m going to burn their world to the ground." How could Mark, her trusted son-in-law, conspire with Jessica, a former employee fired for corporate espionage, to publicly destroy her daughter and steal her legacy? The deeper horror: the faint red welts on Sarah' s back in the video; this wasn' t the first time he' d hurt her. Why hadn' t Sarah called? What kind of hell had her child been living in while she was sipping champagne across the world? The guilt was crushing, but the fury burned brighter. Eleanor wouldn't just fight; she would annihilate. "When we land, we go directly to headquarters." Mark thought he' d won; he just triggered the war of his life.

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Eleanor Vance, tech titaness, finally leaned back, champagne in hand, on her Monte Carlo terrace.

Six months into hard-earned semi-retirement, her empire was thriving, and today, her daughter Sarah and son-in-law Mark were officially taking the reins.

A notification shattered the peace.

"VANCE TECH SHOCKER: NEW HEIRESS ANNOUNCED AS FOUNDER' S DAUGHTER BRANDED A FRAUD."

Her blood ran cold as she saw the image: Mark, arm around a smug stranger named Lily Miller, the Vance Tech logo looming like a tombstone.

Sarah' s phone went straight to voicemail. "Sarah, darling, it' s Mom. Call me back the second you get this."

Mark answered, voice sickeningly cheerful. "Eleanor! Enjoying the Riviera, I hope?"

Then, dropped a bombshell: "Sarah Vance is not, in fact, Eleanor Vance' s biological daughter. She is an illegitimate child... The true inheritor... is my daughter, Lily."

Eleanor watched live footage: Sarah, her dress torn, screaming "He' s lying! I' m her daughter! Mom, he' s lying!" as security dragged her away.

Mark' s smooth voice narrated: "Sarah has been... unwell."

The camera zoomed on Sarah' s anguished face, then a guard shoved her out.

The world vanished for Eleanor; only a burning rage remained.

She hurled her glass, shattering it against the wall.

"Get the jet ready," she commanded, voice dangerously calm.

"Get me everything you can find on Jessica Brown and Lily Miller. Dig."

"I' m going home," Eleanor vowed, her eyes like flint. "And I' m going to burn their world to the ground."

How could Mark, her trusted son-in-law, conspire with Jessica, a former employee fired for corporate espionage, to publicly destroy her daughter and steal her legacy?

The deeper horror: the faint red welts on Sarah' s back in the video; this wasn' t the first time he' d hurt her.

Why hadn' t Sarah called?

What kind of hell had her child been living in while she was sipping champagne across the world?

The guilt was crushing, but the fury burned brighter.

Eleanor wouldn't just fight; she would annihilate.

"When we land, we go directly to headquarters."

Mark thought he' d won; he just triggered the war of his life.

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