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Chapter Thirty-Nine: Blood Betrayal

Author: Rejoice Ezeh
last update Last Updated: 2025-07-30 12:42:24

Victoria Sterling's POV

"Mrs. Hayes, Vincent Torrino is a person of significant interest in our investigation. What did he want from you?"

I was watching the FBI interrogation of Mary Hayes through a secure video feed in my private office, courtesy of contacts I had cultivated within federal law enforcement during my time studying international business in Switzerland. The irony wasn't lost on me - while my cousin Ophelia had been playing house with some nobody hockey player, I had been building the network of relationships that should have made me Richard Sterling's obvious successor.

But now Ophelia was back, and everyone was treating her like the prodigal daughter who deserved to inherit an empire she had abandoned for three years.

"Turn off the feed," I told my assistant, Marcus Walsh - not to be confused with my uncle's son Marcus, whom I considered equally undeserving of his position in the family hierarchy.

I had returned from Europe two weeks ago to find that the Sterling fami
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