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The CounterAttack
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2026-04-07 15:57:19
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THE HEIRESS GAME;REBIRTH AND RUIN Falling apart
Adeline's POVI had always hated the walk out of a room you had just lost.The boardroom was one thing. Four walls, a closed door, a private disaster. But the corridor outside was something else entirely.The open office, the glass partitions, the employees of Royce Industries who had presumably heard enough through walls and internet alerts to know that whatever had happened in that room had not gone well. They moved out of my path without being asked. Eyes dropping to laptops, to phones, to absolutely anything that was not my face. The ones who did look had the particular expression of people trying to appear neutral and failing.I kept my head up.It was the only thing I had left to keep.By the time the lift doors closed and I was alone inside it, the back of my throat was burning in a way that had nothing to do with tears. I had used those already. This was something rawer. Something that sat between grief and fury and couldn't decide which one it wanted to be.Mikhail was waiti
THE HEIRESS GAME;REBIRTH AND RUIN The pull out
Adeline's POVThe boardroom smelled like money and judgment.Twelve men, two women. Seated around a table long enough to land a small plane. Suits more expensive than some people's salaries for a whole month. Coffee cups full, since nobody in a room like this would ever admit to needing anything.They'd been waiting for me when I came in. All fourteen of them. Seated already, meaning they'd been speaking until the sound of my heels on the corridor made them freeze.I'd walked into difficult rooms before. I knew the feel of the air in a room that had already made its decision.I sat at the head of the table anyway."Thank you all for being here." I managed. My voice sounded stronger than I had any right to expect."As you know, my father is recovering and I'll be acting president of Royce Industries for the time being. Thank you for your patience throughout what has been an unusual week."Unusual. What a joke. An understatement of the year.Harrison, a developer with twenty-two percent
THE HEIRESS GAME;REBIRTH AND RUIN Bad omen
Adeline's POVThe notification banner dropped across my screen before I had even finished reading the message.My first thought was the video. The forensic rebuttal we had posted, the one that had cracked the public narrative just enough to introduce doubt. I had been half-expecting a counter-move from Conrad's side all evening, another wave of commentary or another carefully constructed lie pushed through a faceless account.But it wasn't that.Unknown number. One line of text.I know things about him you don't. Things that can end this. --DI read it twice. Then a third time.The initial was the thing that snagged in me.Small and almost casual, like the person on the other end had debated whether to sign it at all and then decided that one letter was all they were willing to commit to. D. It told me almost nothing and just enough at the same time.I typed back quickly before I could second-guess it.Who is this?I pressed send. Watched the screen. The two grey ticks sat there wit
THE HEIRESS GAME;REBIRTH AND RUIN Unknown Texter
Adeline's POVNobody needed to explain what had to happen next.The moment that door flew open, three nurses and a doctor appeared from the far end of the corridor as if they had been waiting for exactly this. Which maybe they had, some part of them always watching the monitors from behind a glass partition. They moved fast and without any of the panic that was clawing at the inside of my throat. This was not unusual to them. The thought made it worse somehow."Step back, please." One of the nurses held her arm out, firm and unhesitating, and I stepped back without meaning to, the wall behind me appearing from nowhere. "All three of you-- out of the doorway, let us through."Mikhail had already moved to the side. He gripped Natasha by the elbow and steered her clear of the door, and she let him, her whole body gone strange and limp, like a person who had used every last thing they had and now there was nothing.The door swung shut behind them.The three of us stood in the corridor
THE HEIRESS GAME;REBIRTH AND RUIN Critical Condition 2
Adeline's POVThe isolation gown they made me wear was pale blue and papery.It crinkled with every movement, stiff and antiseptic-smelling, the kind that reminded you exactly where you were and exactly why. I put it on without thinking.Operating on autopilot was the only thing I was capable of right then.Mikhail's name had opened the ICU doors the way it opened most things--without resistance, without waiting.Normally they would not even let us in yet. I knew that. The nurse at the station had started to say so, her mouth already forming the words, and then she looked at Mikhail and the words simply did not come.Doors opened. We were shown through. That was the power he carried in this building, in every corridor, in every room and right now I was grateful for every inch of it.I pressed my palm flat against the door for just a moment before pushing it open.Natasha went in first.I followed.He looked so pale.That was the first thing. Not the tubes, though there were several, f
THE HEIRESS GAME;REBIRTH AND RUIN Critical Condition
Adeline’s POV“Hey… Adeline… it’s Robert—”Just hee tone alone was enough to make my breath stop.Something was wrong…“What about him?” I asked. My voice now was hollow…like I was afraid to ask it so I won’t hear her answer.There was a pause. And that alone confirmed that it wasn’t good news.“He’s been in an accident,” she said finally. “We’re at the hospital.”Everything in me went still.He’s been in an accident….those words replayed in my mind over and over again..“What do you mean… accident?” I whispered.“He was coming back from work,” Natasha continued quickly, like she was trying to get it out before she broke. “A truck ran the light and hit him. They brought him in…Adeline, he’s in the ICU.”The ICU.No, no,no… my father…in ICU.“I—” My lips parted, but nothing came out.“Just come,” she said softly. “Please.”The call ended.And for a few seconds, I didn’t move, I didn’t think, heck, I didn’t even breathe.No.No, no, no.Not him. Not him…My father.The man I had just f
THE HEIRESS GAME;REBIRTH AND RUIN Welcome
Author's POVConrad stood in front of the glass, his eyes scanning the road below him. The media had spent almost the whole day camping in front of his office. Finally, they had left. He could finally breathe freely.It wasn't as if he didn't want them but they were becoming too much. They weren't
Last Updated : 2026-03-29THE HEIRESS GAME;REBIRTH AND RUIN A fact
Adeline's POVJackson had left a while ago and now it remained Mikhail and I. He seemed to be busy and so I sat quietly to think. My hands grabbed my phone as I began to scroll on the page again, checking to see if what I was looking for would hit me.It did, just that moment when it hit. I let out
Last Updated : 2026-03-27THE HEIRESS GAME;REBIRTH AND RUIN Isaac 2
Adeline's POVDinner had gone as well as it could that night. My father had been a little quiet but as usual, Natasha had been there to make sure that he wasn't so for long. She had a way of bringing out the energy in him.We had finished eating just then and I wanted to go to bed. Mikhail had know
Last Updated : 2026-03-25THE HEIRESS GAME;REBIRTH AND RUIN A scandal(II)
Adeline POVWhen she left, I felt a wave of loneliness hit me. I had no idea why. It was as if now she had gone, all that was left was my fight again. I heard him come in before I heard his voice, “Why don't we go talk to Jackson?" He said.I looked up from where I had been staring into a portrait
Last Updated : 2026-03-24
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