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Pampered By The Ruthless Billionaire Uncle

Pampered By The Ruthless Billionaire Uncle

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Vivienne Sterling was bound to a steel chair in a derelict warehouse, trembling as the metallic taste of her own blood filled her mouth. The thug torturing her put his phone on speaker, revealing a truth that shattered her world: her kidnapping was ordered by her best friend, Sophia. Worse, her fiancé Brant was on the line, his voice dripping with an intimacy he never showed Vivienne. "Of course I love you, baby. The engagement to Vivienne is just business. As soon as the project is finalized, I'm telling her it's over." Every sacrifice she had made for Brant-giving up Yale, fighting her family-was just a pathetic joke. As she choked on her blood, trying desperately to scream, a thug brought a heavy steel pipe down on her spine. In her fading vision, she saw Brant's formidable uncle, Julian Carlisle, bursting through the warehouse doors too late. How could she have been so utterly blind to their deceit? She died consumed by a tidal wave of regret and burning hatred, her soul screaming that if she had another chance, she would make them pay in blood. Suddenly, the absolute darkness was ripped away. Blinding sunlight stabbed her eyes. She wasn't dead on a cold concrete floor. She was sitting in the plush passenger seat of Brant's Bentley, wearing a Chanel gown from exactly one year ago. She looked at the man who had discarded her life so easily, raised her hand, and slapped him across the face.

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Pampered By The Ruthless Billionaire Uncle Chapter 1

A searing pain shot through Vivienne Sterling's skull, dragging her back to consciousness. The cold, damp concrete floor seeped through her silk dress, making her body tremble uncontrollably. A metallic taste, thick and cloying, filled her mouth. Blood.

She tried to move, but her wrists were bound tight behind her back. The ropes bit into her skin, raw and burning. Her body was a roadmap of agony-every bruise, every cut, every place the boots had found her ribs. The air in the derelict Brooklyn warehouse was heavy with the smell of rust and decay.

A stiletto heel slammed down onto her hand.

The bone cracked with a sickening crunch.

Vivienne's face went white as death. Sweat beaded on her forehead. But she didn't make a sound. She wouldn't give them that satisfaction.

Sophia Reed crouched down, her angelic face twisted into something demonic. "Stop struggling," she purred, her voice dripping with venomous sweetness. "This was all his idea, you know. He's only one step away from completely controlling the family. Aren't you so in love with him? Why won't you even give up your body?He'll succeed as long as you're gone, this burden of his."

Vivienne's blood ran cold. Her heart hammered against her ribs, a frantic, trapped bird. "I don't believe you," she choked out. "He's not that kind of man."

He had been so gentle with her. So tender. He couldn't-he wouldn't-

Sophia laughed, a sound like broken glass. She picked up Vivienne's phone-the custom-made one Brant had given her-and tossed it directly into her face. The edge of the device split her lip.

"Don't believe me?" Sophia sneered. "Then call him. Go ahead."

Vivienne scrambled for the phone like it was a lifeline. Her fingers, slick with her own blood, fumbled across the screen. She dialed Brant's number.

The ringtone cut through the silence like a blade.

Once. Twice. Three times.

Then the automated voice came-cold, hollow, merciless: "The number you have dialed is not answering. Please try again later."

She dialed again.

Nothing.

Again.

Nothing.

Each unanswered call drove another knife into her chest.

On the fifth attempt, the line connected. But it wasn't Brant's voice that answered. It was Sophia's, already recorded into his voicemail greeting, giggling softly as she said, "You've reached Brant. Leave a message-or don't. "

The phone slipped from Vivienne's fingers.

Sophia's heel came down on it, grinding the screen into glittering shards against the concrete.

"You stupid, pathetic fool," Sophia whispered, grabbing a fistful of Vivienne's hair and yanking her head back until her neck screamed in protest. "Do you believe me now? Brant has never loved you. Did you really think a girl from nowhere could marry into a family like his? His heart has always belonged to me. The engagement? Just revenge for when I left him years ago. And now that I'm back?" She smiled, slow and cruel. "Why would he ever want you?"

Every word peeled away another layer of Vivienne's hope.

She remembered everything. Holding his hand through his recovery. Standing by him when he could barely walk. Pouring her youth, her family connections, her very soul into building his empire. And the moment Sophia returned, he had looked at her like she was nothing.

The difference between loving and not loving was so painfully clear.

And she had learned this lesson with her body broken and her spirit in tatters.

The pain ran so deep that she couldn't even cry.

Footsteps echoed from the shadows behind Sophia. Several sets of them. Rough men with hungry eyes emerged from the darkness.

Sophia straightened her white dress, smoothing down the fabric with deliberate calm. "To make sure you perform well for our guest," she announced, her voice carrying the weight of absolute authority, "I've arranged some practice for you."

She gestured lazily toward the men.

"Play with her. However you like."

The men's eyes lit up with predatory greed.

"Really?" one of them breathed, licking his lips. "Mrs. Hayes? We can really-"

Sophia nodded, her smile never wavering.

That was all the permission they needed.

They lunged.

Hands ripped at Vivienne's dress. Fabric tore. The cold air hit her skin. She kicked. She screamed. She bit down on the first wrist that came near her mouth-hard, drawing blood.

The man roared in pain and backhanded her across the face so hard her vision exploded into white.

"Bitch!" he snarled. "You bite me again and I'll break your fucking jaw. Play nice, and maybe this won't hurt so much."

But Vivienne would not play nice.

She fought like a cornered animal, like something already dead and refusing to stay that way. Teeth. Nails. Anything. She clawed at their faces, kicked at their groins, bit any flesh that came within reach. Her body was screaming, every bruise and broken rib shrieking in protest, but she didn't stop.

She couldn't stop.

But her resistance only enraged them.

A boot slammed into her stomach. The air rushed out of her lungs in a silent gasp. Pain exploded behind her eyes, white-hot and blinding.

"Ungrateful bitch!" another man snarled, grabbing her hair and smashing her head against the concrete floor.

Once. Twice. Three times.

Her vision turned red at the edges, then began to darken.

Just as the warehouse door burst open. A tall, imposing figure stood silhouetted against the sudden light. She couldn't see his face, but she recognized the powerful, chilling aura instantly.

Julian Carlisle. Brant's elusive, formidable uncle.

The irony was a bitter pill. She had once argued with him, fiercely defending Brant in his presence. How utterly foolish she had been.

She tried to call out to him, to beg for help. Her lips moved, but no sound came out.

In the last moment of her life, as the pipe was raised for the final blow, her vision was filled with nothing but a tidal wave of regret and a burning, all-consuming hatred.

"If I could do it all again... I would never let them get away with this. "

Her world plunged into absolute darkness.

Then, just as suddenly, it was ripped away.

Blinding sunlight stabbed at her eyes. She heard Brant's voice, laced with familiar impatience. "Vivienne, what are you spacing out for? Sophia's waiting for us."

Her eyes flew open. She wasn't on a cold, concrete floor. She was sitting in the plush leather passenger seat of Brant's Bentley, the familiar storefronts of Fifth Avenue gliding past the window.

She looked down at her hands. They were clean, unblemished, her nails perfectly manicured. She was wearing the Chanel gown she'd worn to the charity gala. The one from a year ago.

She was alive. She was back.

Brant was still talking, his tone annoyed. "Come on, Vivi, we're going to be late."

She turned her head slowly, looking at him. Really looking at him. The handsome face she had once adored now seemed like a grotesque mask. All the pain, all the betrayal, all the hatred from a lifetime cut short coalesced into a single point of white-hot energy in the center of her chest.

She raised her hand.

And with all the strength in her body, she slapped him across the face.

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