The Ruined Heiress and Her Ruthless Monster

Chapter 5 5

Word Count: 542 | Released on: 08/01/2026

ing her to the elevator like a prisoner. When the doors opened in the lobb

hispers rippled

smoothed her hair. She was a Ster

lked in, flanked by two assistants.

read across his face. He stoppe

s. Blackwood is out of your league. I'm going up

there, if he signed that paper, she was

at the elevator where Caleb was j

. It was reckless. It was

et out a throaty, amused sound. She stepped c

the receptionists to hear. "You really t

"What are you

the guard had held her. "Julian and I... we have a complicated histo

disgusted. "

rial whisper. "Why do you think I was at his pen

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who was walking past.

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of pure, spoiled arrogance. "Tell Julian not to b

ened. He didn't confirm or deny. He simply gave a curt nod and kept

at silence wa

ple. "He's sleeping with

with me," Viv

rust him. If he's screwi

o," he barked at his assistants

med out of

knees shaking. She had done i

looked at Vivian. "Mr. Blackwood is wat

of the security camera in the cor

stain still on his collar. He watched the screen.

e screen wher

ing," he

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The Ruined Heiress and Her Ruthless Monster

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“My fiancé cheated on me with a bottle service girl on the giant screen at our own engagement party. I woke up the next morning in a strange bed, smelling of sandalwood and expensive scotch, only to realize I was in the penthouse of Julian Blackwood-the man I had cruelly humiliated ten years ago. Before I could even process the shame, my world collapsed. My father suffered a massive stroke, and my half-brother Conrad immediately moved to seize the family empire, while a swarm of illegitimate siblings emerged to strip us of every cent. "You're a stain on my floor, Vivian," Julian told me, his eyes as cold as a stormy sea. He didn't just want me gone; he wanted to watch me go bankrupt. My stepmother hissed that I needed to get on my knees and beg him to be our lawyer, or we'd end up on the street. Then, a biker with a metal bat tried to kill me on a dark Hamptons road, proving my own family had already put a price on my head. I didn't understand why the boy I once called "the gardener's son" was now the only one standing between me and a shallow grave. Julian saved my life from the wreck, but his touch felt like a threat. Was he protecting me, or just making sure he was the one who got to finish me off? Standing in the lobby of Blackwood & Partners, I looked straight into the security cameras and told the biggest lie of my life. I told the world that Julian was obsessed with me, turning a restraining order into a scandalous affair. If I had to be a villain to survive my own family, I would be the most dangerous one New York had ever seen.”