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Autor: Tammy Dee
last update Data de publicação: 2026-03-11 00:24:04

As the private jet took a sharp turn over the Swiss Alps, the moon cast a silver glow on the rugged, snow-covered mountains. The peaks looked like they had been cut with a jagged knife, their edges rough and unforgiving. I leaned my forehead against the chilly window, my breath misting up the glass as I gazed out at the breathtaking view. The mountains stretched out before me, their beauty almost surreal in the soft, lunar light.

Deep down, lost in that endless white expanse, stood the villa wh
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  • The Billionaire's Stolen Heiress    MATRIARCH POV

    Winter had finally loosened its grip on the mountains.From the stone terrace of the Alpine villa, I watched the snow retreating slowly up the jagged granite slopes like a defeated army. The air, which for months had been a knife to the lungs, was now soft, carrying the scent of damp earth and blooming edelweiss. The river below, once a silent vein of ice, now roared with the melt—a chaotic, living sound that echoed through the valley.Spring always arrived quietly in the High Alps. But when it came, it changed the very architecture of the world.I rested my hands on the sun-warmed railing and looked down at the gardens.Bentley was a blur of gold and white against the emerald grass. The little dog tumbled through the lawn like a clumsy ball of fur, barking with a frantic, joyous energy at absolutely nothing. Marcus sat on the terrace steps, his tactical jacket replaced by a simple linen shirt, tossing a stick that Bentley insisted on retrieving with the gravity of a sacred mission.

  • The Billionaire's Stolen Heiress    Maria pov

    The High Court was colder than I expected.It wasn’t a physical chill; the heating vents were humming, and the room was packed with the humid breath of three hundred spectators. But the atmosphere carried a clinical, sharpened finality. Justice, I realized, has a temperature. And today, it felt like the first frost of winter—the kind that kills off the rot to make room for the spring.The courtroom was a sea of faces. Journalists lined the back rows like vultures in suits, their cameras ready to capture the exact moment a god fell. Lawyers moved in hushed, expensive waves. Every major financial network was broadcasting live.This wasn’t just a trial. It was a funeral for a shadow empire.I sat at the front table, my spine perfectly straight, my hands folded over the lace of my dress. Beside me, Catrina was a statue of dark, lethal elegance. We didn't need to hold hands; we were connected by the sheer gravity of what we had survived. Behind us sat Julian and Marcus—the shield and th

  • The Billionaire's Stolen Heiress    Julian POV

    The St. Clair boardroom had always been intimidating. It wasn't just the sheer scale of the obsidian table or the panoramic glass that made the city look like a toy set. It was the air—heavy with the scent of expensive cologne and the silent, vibrating tension of men who controlled the tides of global trade.Power lived here. Empires died here. And today, a legacy was being led to the gantry.The double doors groaned open. I walked in first, the sound of my heels on the marble floor like a steady, rhythmic drumbeat. Maria was on my right, draped in ivory silk that made her look like a saint carved from stone. Catrina was on my left, dressed in sharp, dark tailoring, her eyes scanning the room with the predatory focus of a sniper.Three of us moving in perfect, terrifying synchronicity.Twenty board members sat around the table. I saw the calculations happening behind their eyes. Many of them were Vincenzo’s creatures—bought and paid for with the very money the Matriarch had frozen ho

  • The Billionaire's Stolen Heiress    MATRIARCH POV

    The St. Clair headquarters had never felt this quiet. It was a sterile, suffocating silence—the kind that precedes a landslide. For decades, this building had been my cathedral and my cage. Tonight, it was simply a hunting ground.I stood beside the floor-to-ceiling glass of my executive suite, watching the city lights fracture across the surface of the river below. I didn't look like a woman who had recently been "contained" by a madman. I looked like the Matriarch. My suit was crisp, my silver hair pinned back with a sapphire brooch that had seen three generations of board meetings.The heavy mahogany doors behind me groaned open.“Madam,” my Chief Legal Officer said, his voice vibrating with a nervousness he couldn't quite mask. “The emergency financial review team is assembled in the War Room. The SEC monitors are on standby, though they don't know why yet.”“Good,” I replied, my gaze fixed on the horizon. “They’ll find out soon enough.”The man hesitated, the sound of his rapid

  • The Billionaire's Stolen Heiress    Dual pov

    JULIAN POVThe silence that followed the termination of the countdown was deafening. It was a heavy, pressurized quiet that made my ears ring.Marcus leaned against the mahogany banister, his chest heaving, his rifle held loosely at his side. He let out a long, ragged exhale. “I am officially resigning from the bomb squad, Julian. Next time, let’s just go to dinner.”I wasn't listening. My world had narrowed to the woman standing at the apex of the Grand Staircase.Maria looked like a ghost that had clawed its way back to the land of the living. Dust matted her hair, and her gown—the one she’d worn to look like the perfect heir—was shredded and gray. But as she stood there, backlit by the flickering chandeliers, she didn't look broken. She looked like a queen who had just survived an assassination.In her hand, she gripped the encrypted drive. The Moreno Ledger. The digital soul of a monster.I took a step toward her. “You stopped it.”She gave a small, jerky nod. “The ‘Two Marias’...

  • The Billionaire's Stolen Heiress    Dual pov

    CATRINAThe cellar door shuddered again, a scream of protesting metal that echoed like a dying ghost. I slammed my shoulder into it one last time, the impact vibrating through my teeth.The magnetic locks didn’t even flinch. They were high-wattage seals, drawing power directly from the estate’s grid. Brute force was a caveman’s tool, and I was out of time. Above me, the vent rattled—a frantic, metallic scuttle as Maria disappeared into the house’s veins."Don't stop, Maria," I whispered, wiping sweat and grime from my eyes.Behind me, the fake server gave up the ghost. The overclocked processors popped with the staccato rhythm of small-arms fire as the cooling modules froze solid into a block of jagged, useless ice. The hum died. The blue light flickered out.Silence swallowed the cellar, heavy and suffocating. Except for the vibration on my wrist.02:37.Two minutes and thirty-seven seconds until the East Wing—and my sister—became rubble.“Think,” I muttered, my mind stripping the ro

  • The Billionaire's Stolen Heiress    Catrina's POV

    The doors just hissed open, and something cold entered my chest before I even turned. Danger is here. I knew it the way you know rain is coming even when the sky is still clear.I moved closer to Julian without thinking. His hand met mine strong, and steady but he hadn’t seen yet.Then he did.Vi

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  • The Billionaire's Stolen Heiress    Veronica POV

    “Carlos cannot be the CEO of this company.”Catrina’s voice sliced through the room, sharp and trembling. Her face drained red, veins standing out in her neck.For a minute there was silence.Then laughter escalated.It rolled across the boardroom, people mocking, cruel, deafening.“What made you

    last updateÚltima atualização : 2026-03-24
  • The Billionaire's Stolen Heiress    Catrina's POV

    “I have evidence.”The voice cut through the room from outside, sharp and deliberate.The door creaked open slowly. A shadow stretched across the floor, long and unsettling. My fingers tightened against the edge of the table without me realizing it, nails digging into the polished wood as my hear

    last updateÚltima atualização : 2026-03-24
  • The Billionaire's Stolen Heiress    Catrina's POV

    The tension in the room didn’t just rise, it coiled.Whispers slithered across the hall like smoke. Executives leaned toward each other, murmuring behind careful hands. Disgust, suspicion and fear. Their eyes shifted between Veronica and Mr. Cadwell, fingers subtly pointing, as if they were afraid

    last updateÚltima atualização : 2026-03-24
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