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Scapegoat Daughter of the Big Boss
Scapegoat Daughter of the Big Boss
Author: Chiseled Verdance

Chapter 1

Author: Chiseled Verdance
"Ugh! What a piece of trash! Do you really think you're one of the Holloways? You're nothing but a stray they keep outside. Getting to die in place of Ms. Kate is the kind of luck your miserable life could never earn, no matter how many lifetimes you live."

Inside the cramped van, the bald, scar-faced man spat a thick glob of phlegm right next to my foot. The thugs behind him stared at me as if I were a dead man walking.

I finally understood.

It was no wonder that three days ago, the Holloways had gone all out with their search for their missing daughter.

I thought I was loved. As it turned out, I was just being sold off. They were trading my life for Kate Holloway's. What a truly heart-stirring display of parental love.

"Let me go! Whatever the Holloways are paying you, I'll pay you ten times that!" I yelled.

"Ten times?" Scarface smacked my cheek with the flat of his knife. "With what? With these flea-market rags of yours? Or do you mean…"

The lewd look in his eyes was unmistakable as he brushed his hand over my face, a sleazy grin spreading across his lips.

"Or are you going to let us have some fun first?" he asked, cackling.

Suddenly, he clamped a hand around my throat. "Behave! The person your family crossed is Mr. Whitethorn. If he's pissed, the entire Holloway family will be wiped off the map of Ravenfield, let alone just you."

"Whitethorn? Dominic Whitethorn?" I confirmed, pretending to be terrified. "The person Kate crossed is Dominic Whitethorn from Ravenfield?"

After all this fuss and commotion, they had abducted me to offer me up to my own adoptive father?

In that case, they were truly finished.

The thought made me tremble uncontrollably—half from excitement, half from terror. Excitement because these idiots were marching right toward death's doorstep, and terror because I knew how insanely possessive and cruel Dominic—Dad—could be.

The last maid who'd stolen a pen from me? He had personally torn out her hand and foot tendons and turned them into displays. Even now, they were still displayed in a corner of his study.

And another lackey who had criticized me behind my back, saying that I was "useless and uneducated"? Dad had cut out his tongue, sewn his mouth shut, and left him to starve to death slowly in an iron cage in the underground fight club.

I swallowed a mouthful of coppery-tasting saliva. "Let me go now, and I'll pretend none of this happened."

If the Holloways had shown me even the slightest shred of kindness, then Dad—out of consideration for me—might have spared them.

But now…

Scarface's eyes grew even more vicious as he spat again.

"Fuck! You still have the nerve to negotiate with me? If I let you go, how the hell are my brothers supposed to get their payment?"
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  • Scapegoat Daughter of the Big Boss   Chapter 8

    Dominic ordered Claire's corpse to be skinned and even had her organs rendered into lamp oil.Not long after, Kate died as well.She died on a rainy day, in the large feeding cauldron in the tiger enclosure. She was boiled alive.Hearing about these ways of dying only made my nausea worse. I could no longer eat anything, and my will to survive grew fainter with each passing day.In my dreams, I seemed to return to that rainy night ten years prior.Every time after a stormy night, Dominic would always bring me a gift the next day. Sometimes it would be a doll, other times a figurine. But without exception, they all seemed to carry a faint scent of blood.On that rainy, thundering night, I couldn't sleep and went looking for him. That was when I discovered the gentle Dominic from the daytime standing in the basement, drenched in blood. He was torturing and killing, with corpses strewn everywhere and blood flowing across the floor.Next to him sat a pink cat doll. I watched as he s

  • Scapegoat Daughter of the Big Boss   Chapter 7

    "What? Didn't your nanny-for-a-mother and prison-bound father ever tell you? You're the real thief who's been occupying someone else's space," Dominic snarled.Kate froze, then let out a twisted scream. "No! How is that… That's impossible! You're lying to me! You're all lying to me! You're my father! My father!"What she would never know was that Dominic—the man who cherished and doted on me like his own life—was only my adoptive father.When I was six, Kate's mother, who worked as a nanny, had dumped me in an abandoned mine. That was where I found Dominic, barely clinging to life.The little me fed him water and screamed desperately for help.From that day on, Dominic took me back with him and raised me by his side. I became Rosalie Whitethorn—the daughter of the Whitethorn family.At first, Josh had only been my bodyguard. But through one meritorious deed after another, he eventually became the leader of the Blackscale Syndicate and Dominic's chosen successor, which also made h

  • Scapegoat Daughter of the Big Boss   Chapter 6

    A second later, both Callum and Kate were hoisted into the air by black-clad bodyguards and tossed back and forth."It was him! It was all him! I didn't know anything! Please, I'm begging you, let me go!" Kate shrieked."Kate, you… This was all your idea!" Callum roared."Bullshit! No one forced you to carve her face with a knife!"Callum stared in shock at Kate, whose cheeks were now swollen and flushed red.Joshua cut in impatiently. "Did you bring them?"15 minutes earlier, after recognizing me, Joshua had already ordered someone to seize their parents, Walt and Claire Holloway.The deafening roar of a helicopter landing on the front lawn echoed through the room. Mercenaries dragged Walt and Claire inside and forced them to their knees in front of Joshua.Walt immediately started begging. "Mr. Whitethorn, did this bitch cross you? We're innocent, truly! Just tell us what it will take to calm your anger—we'll pay! We'll compensate you for everything!"Claire chimed in instan

  • Scapegoat Daughter of the Big Boss   Chapter 5

    The next second, Callum crushed me beneath his shoe while he fawned shamelessly."You can do whatever you want to this chick. She's got nothing else going for her except this worthless life of hers. She can take whatever you throw at her."So about the Holloway family matter… Can we just call it even? Say the word, and we'll leave immediately.""Shut up! Who said you had the right to speak here?" Desmond roared, eager to show off in front of Joshua."Boss, how should we deal with this chick?"He grabbed my hair and yanked me upright, forcing me to kneel with my head thrown back in humiliation.He didn't notice Joshua's expression turning icy as he stalked closer."Who said you could touch her?" Joshua snarled.With a swift kick, Desmond was sent tumbling across the floor. He clutched his stomach and barely dared to breathe."Boss, I was just worried that the chick might offend you again…"Joshua didn't even glance at him. Instead, he walked straight up to me and stopped."Wh

  • Scapegoat Daughter of the Big Boss   Chapter 4

    Kate held the phone right by my ear, reading out every vicious comment aloud, laughing so hard that her whole body shook.Half of my face had gone numb from the pain. Blood blurred my vision, and agony dragged me toward unconsciousness.When I came to again, my head was covered with a hood, and I'd been dumped onto an ice-cold floor.Ten minutes later, the van door opened, and I heard Callum's fawning voice."Desmond, we've brought the chick. She's definitely a clean one.""Bring her out. Let me inspect the goods."The familiar voice reignited a flicker of hope in me, and my heart started pounding again.That voice belonged to Desmond Hume, Joshua's most trusted right-hand man.He'd seen me before. I was going to be saved!I was yanked by my hair and thrown to the ground like trash. Then the hood was violently ripped away.The blinding light nearly knocked me out again.I struggled to open my swollen eyes, but I couldn't see anything clearly. The world was nothing but a blur

  • Scapegoat Daughter of the Big Boss   Chapter 3

    That was when Scarface noticed the way I instinctively protected my hands."No! Don't!" I screamed.His boot came down hard on my fingers. The sharp, sickening crack of bones breaking rang out clearly, making my scalp crawl.He ground each finger under his heel, as if he were crushing ants."I was wrong… Please, I'm begging you… Let me go…"As a painter, my hands were everything to me."Too late," he said, sneering.He grabbed my hair and started dragging me toward the tires.Just as total despair swallowed me and I thought I was going to be crushed into pulp, a blinding set of headlights appeared behind us, followed by a sharp, urgent honking that cut through the silence.The person who stepped out of the car was none other than my "dear big brother", Callum Holloway. He was followed by Kate, who was smiling ever so sweetly.A big, fawning grin immediately appeared on Scarface's face.Kate snuggled into Callum's side and cooed sweetly, "Cal, what if Mr. Whitethorn thinks he

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