The Billionaire Heiress: yes, Use me
I don't help people, Lara. I own them."
Five years ago, Lara’s life was incinerated. Her "deadbeat" father betrayed her, her mother was drugged and vanished into a psychiatric ward, and the mother’s vast bloodline inheritance was stolen by a predatory stepmother.
Now, on her twenty-fifth birthday—the day her mother promised her "the beginning" Lara finds her fiancé in the arms of her stepsister. The betrayal is the final straw. The girl who believed in love is dead. In her place stands a woman with a heart of ice and a single goal: Total Annihilation.
To get her revenge, Lara approaches the one man the world fears Xavier Vane. He is a cold-blooded billionaire who treats people like pawns. Lara offers herself as his ultimate tool, whispering the words that will seal her fate: "Yes, Use Me."
Xavier knows she’s using him to destroy her family. Lara knows he’s using her to satisfy a dark family legacy. But as the lines between predator and prey begin to blur, a deeper secret emerges. The diamond heirloom Lara seeks isn't just jewelry it’s the key to an empire that dwarfs even the Vane fortune.
In a game of masks, hidden mothers, and lethal obsession, who is truly using whom?
"Break me if you must, Xavier. Just make sure that when you’re done, there’s nothing left of them but ash.
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Chapter: Chapter 28: The Gilded CageThe ride back from the Vane Estate was a heavy, suffocating silence. Outside the tinted windows of the Maybach, the city lights blurred into streaks of gold and neon, but inside the car, the air was thick with the scent of Xavier’s cold fury and my own rising defiance.Xavier didn't say a word. He sat with his jaw clenched so tightly I could see the muscle jumping in his cheek. His hand was clamped over mine, his grip bordering on painful not out of malice, but out of a desperate, primal need to ensure I was still there. He was a man who had just been told by his own father that his life’s work and his wife were both forfeit."Xavier, you're crushing my hand," I whispered.He jumped slightly, as if coming out of a trance. He loosened his grip but didn't let go. Instead, he pulled my hand to his lips, kissing my knuckles with a fervor that felt like a plea. "He won't do it, Lara. Silas ( Xavier father)thinks he can still control the board, but I built Vane Global into a titan while he
Last Updated: 2026-04-13
Chapter: Chapter 27: The Serpent’s TongueThe morning after my "invasion" of Vane Global, the city felt different. The headlines were a chaotic blur of my face and Xavier’s shadow. “The Crestview Phoenix,” one tabloid called me. “The Vane Obsession,” whispered another.I stood in the center of Xavier’s sprawling kitchen, the floor-to-ceiling windows offering a panoramic view of a skyline that looked like a jagged crown of glass and steel. I was wrapped in a silk robe the color of midnight, a cup of bitter black coffee in my hand. The "Ice Queen" was still there, beneath the surface, but the silence of the penthouse allowed the cracks to show."You're thinking too loud again," Xavier’s voice rumbled behind me.I didn't turn. I didn't have to. I could feel the heat of him moving toward me, a gravitational pull that I couldn't resist even if I wanted to. He wrapped his arms around my waist, pulling my back flush against his broad chest. He was dressed for the office charcoal suit, crisp white shirt but his touch was anything but
Last Updated: 2026-04-12
Chapter: Chapter 26: The Iron ThroneThe transition from the mountain villa back to the city was seamless, a testament to Xavier Vane’s absolute control over his environment. The armored Maybach glided through the streets of the business district like a predator through deep water. Inside, the air was cool and smelled of expensive leather and Lara’s signature scent.Lara sat beside Xavier, her "Ice Queen" mask polished to a diamond shine. She was no longer the girl hiding in a safe house. Today, she was a woman reclaiming her crown."The board is already in the conference room, Xavier said, his voice a low vibration. He didn't look at his phone; he looked only at her. His hand was draped over her thigh, his thumb tracing slow, possessive circles that made it hard for her to focus on the digital files on her tablet. "They’ve heard the rumors Arthur started. They think the crestview rightful heir is failing. They think I’ve lost my edge.""Let them think it," Lara replied, her voice steady. "It makes the reveal that much
Last Updated: 2026-04-12
Chapter: Chapter 25: The Alpine EchoThe high-resolution monitor in Xavier’s private study was the only window I had into the world I had fought to save. On the screen, the jagged, snow-capped peaks of the Swiss Alps stood like silent sentinels around a secluded white villa. I watched as a figure in a thick wool coat moved slowly across a sun-drenched terrace.It was her. My mother.She looked smaller than I remembered, a fragile silhouette against the vastness of the mountains, but she was upright. She was breathing air that didn't smell of the damp, suffocating rot of the Crestview cellar."The doctors say her vitals are stabilizing, Lara," a soft voice said from the doorway.I turned to see Adriana leaning against the frame. Xavier’s sister had a way of appearing exactly when the weight of the silence became too much. She walked over, placing a steadying hand on my shoulder. "Sarah sent a message through the encrypted channel. She’s managed to divert the last of Arthur’s private investigators toward a false lead in Lo
Last Updated: 2026-04-03
Chapter: Chapter 24: The Incendiary TruthThe orange glow of the television screen cast flickering shadows against the mahogany walls of the study, making the room feel like it was caught in the heart of the fire itself. On the screen, the Crestview shipping docks the very place I had stood only hours before were a skeleton of twisted steel and roaring Japanese orange flames. The reporter’s voice was a frantic staccato, talking about arson, chemical accelerants, and a "female suspect" seen fleeing the perimeter in a silver sedan.My hand trembled as I reached for the remote to mute the volume. The silence that followed was heavy, broken only by the crackle of the real fire in the hearth behind me."She’s insane," I whispered, my voice barely audible. "Isabella didn't just want to ruin us. She wanted to burn the evidence of her own failure."Xavier didn't answer immediately. He was standing by the window, his silhouette a sharp, dark blade against the midnight sky. He hadn't changed out of his suit, but he had discarded his ti
Last Updated: 2026-03-24
Chapter: Chapter 23: The Dockside TrapThe midnight air at the old docks was thick with the smell of salt, rust, and the metallic tang of an approaching storm. Far from the polished marble of the Vane headquarters, this was the underbelly of the city a place where secrets were drowned and bodies were forgotten.I sat in the passenger seat of Xavier’s darkened SUV, watching the flickering streetlamp outside a dilapidated warehouse. Beside me, Xavier was a silhouette of lethal focus. He hadn't spoken since we left the war room; he was simply a predator waiting for the right moment to strike."There they are," I whispered as a silver sedan pulled up next to a stack of shipping crates.Tiffany stepped out first, looking shivering and out of place in her designer coat. A moment later, Isabella Thorne emerged from the shadows, her blonde hair glowing like a ghost in the moonlight. They stood together the desperate stepsister and the vengeful socialite a partnership born of shared hatred."I have the flight logs," Isabella’s voic
Last Updated: 2026-03-19
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