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Chapter 76

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By dawn, the villa was under siege.

Cameras flashed like lightning at the gates, a swarm of paparazzi pressed so close I swore the iron bars groaned. News vans idled on the road, reporters shouting questions through the crackling buzz of microphones. Protestors held signs painted in red: Gold-digger. Parasite. Carter curse.

And inside, I couldn’t breathe.

The PR team had invaded, suits slick with sweat and desperation. Their voices tangled together, a chorus of rehearsed lines and threats:

“Damage control is essential”

“We issue a denial”

“Distance her from the family”

“No, a united front! We’ll spin her as a victim”

Each word pressed down on my chest until I thought my ribs would snap.

Then Mr. Carter’s chosen mouthpiece, a woman with ice in her eyes and pearls strangling her neck, turned to me.

“You’ll say nothing,” she said flatly. “You’ll sit there, smile, and let us clean up the mess.”

Something inside me snapped.

“I’m not your mess.”

The words tore out of me, raw, furious. Every
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    The camera light seared into my skin. My heart thundered so loud I thought the microphone might pick it up. Still, I forced my lips to curve into something resembling control.“You want a story?” I said, my voice clear. “I’ll give you the truth.”The silence didn’t last.“Truth?” one reporter scoffed, waving his recorder like a weapon. “Let’s start simple, then. Did you sleep with them to climb into this house?”Heat flared across my cheeks. I could feel the brothers’ eyes drilling into me from offstage, but I didn’t look at them. Not yet.“No,” I said.Laughter exploded, sharp and cruel.“Come on, Lena,” another voice sneered. “You expect us to believe three heirs, three brothers, risked their reputations for a maid who irons shirts and scrubs toilets?”I swallowed hard, every muscle in me screaming to run. My father’s voice hissed in my skull: Born to take, not to build. A curse.I steadied my hands on the podium. “Yes. That’s exactly what I expect you to believe. Because it’s the t

  • Three Hot Billionaires Brothers wants Me    Chapter 77

    That night, I broke.Ruby found me in the study, curled on the leather couch, the headlines still flashing in my mind like fire I couldn’t put out. The glow of my phone screen lit the room in sharp, merciless light. Every notification felt like another slap across the face. I wanted to throw it across the room, but I couldn’t stop looking, couldn’t stop watching myself be shredded apart in real time.She sat beside me, her hand brushing mine, grounding me when I felt like I was drowning.“You did good,” she whispered. Her voice was soft, careful, like she was afraid the wrong word might shatter me completely.I laughed bitterly, the sound cracked and hollow. “Good? They called me a whore on live television. They printed it in bold across every headline.” My voice broke. “How is that good?”Her hand tightened around mine, firm, steady, a reminder that I wasn’t entirely alone. “And you answered like a queen. Don’t you dare forget that.”The tears came then, hot and relentless, breaking

  • Three Hot Billionaires Brothers wants Me    Chapter 76

    By dawn, the villa was under siege.Cameras flashed like lightning at the gates, a swarm of paparazzi pressed so close I swore the iron bars groaned. News vans idled on the road, reporters shouting questions through the crackling buzz of microphones. Protestors held signs painted in red: Gold-digger. Parasite. Carter curse.And inside, I couldn’t breathe.The PR team had invaded, suits slick with sweat and desperation. Their voices tangled together, a chorus of rehearsed lines and threats:“Damage control is essential”“We issue a denial”“Distance her from the family”“No, a united front! We’ll spin her as a victim”Each word pressed down on my chest until I thought my ribs would snap.Then Mr. Carter’s chosen mouthpiece, a woman with ice in her eyes and pearls strangling her neck, turned to me.“You’ll say nothing,” she said flatly. “You’ll sit there, smile, and let us clean up the mess.”Something inside me snapped.“I’m not your mess.”The words tore out of me, raw, furious. Every

  • Three Hot Billionaires Brothers wants Me    Chapter 75

    Yes, I refused to disappear. To be erased.And Liam must have seen it in my eyes, because his voice cut through the silence, low and steady as steel.“We’ll take back control.”The words hit me like a whip crack…Then, he said it again “We’ll take back control,” Liam said, his voice low, steady, and dangerous. The words hit me like a whip crack. My chest tightened, but not from fear, from the sheer intensity burning in his eyes. Control. The way he said it made my pulse race, made my skin prickle. My throat went dry, yet I couldn’t look away.“I—” My voice faltered, and I swallowed hard. His gaze pinned me down, demanding, daring. Heat curled low in my stomach, battling with the shame still clawing at me from the headlines.“Say it again.”Zane’s voice cracked through the room like a whip, sharp enough to slice the air. He wasn’t even looking at me, he couldn’t. His fury was locked on Liam, whose jaw was clenched tight enough to shatter.But I saw it.The tremor in his hand, the wa

  • Three Hot Billionaires Brothers wants Me    Chapter 74

    The way my phone buzzed, sharp and insistent, made me jump. For a split second, I thought it wasn’t mine, maybe someone else’s, maybe just a phantom sound. But no. The glow on the nightstand was mine, and the vibration rattled through me like a warning bell.My hand trembled as I reached for it, pulse pounding so hard it drowned out everything else. One notification. Just one line of text.“Published. Frontpage.”The words blurred and sharpened again as if my vision couldn’t decide whether to face them or flee. Heat rushed to my face, shame and fear, and a strange, wild thrill tangling in my chest. My stomach flipped, cold and hollow, while my throat tightened like I couldn’t swallow air.My thoughts fired off in messy sparks, What did they post? How much did they show? Who’s seen it already? God, what will Liam say? Zane? Kai? Each name hit me like another drop of gasoline on an already burning fire.And yet… buried beneath the panic, a darker whisper stirred. The world is watching y

  • Three Hot Billionaires Brothers wants Me    Chapter 73

    My voice shook, but I forced it past the terror clawing at my throat.“Then make me nothing.”The words cracked through the villa like lightning, but I didn’t stop there. I stepped forward, meeting his eyes head-on. “Erase me, if that makes you sleep at night. Pretend I don’t exist, the way you’ve pretended your empire isn’t rotting from the inside.”Mr. Carter’s mask faltered, just for a heartbeat.“You think power is about names, about crowns and legacies,” I said, my voice steadying with every word. “But here’s the truth you can’t stand, your sons don’t fear losing the empire. They fear losing me. And that makes me more powerful than you’ll ever admit.”The silence that followed was suffocating, sharper than any blade. Even the brothers froze, their eyes darting between us like witnesses to a war that had no rules.For the first time, the storm in Mr. Carter’s eyes flickered, not anger, not disdain, but something far more dangerous. Recognition.And I realized in that moment, I had

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