All Chapters of Wellness Influencer Stole My Life I’ll Destroy Theirs: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

My adoptive parents' long-lost daughter came back. She's a wellness influencer.She eats from crystal bowls she "cleansed." Sleeps with a white noise machine. She will only ride in a custom, climate-controlled car.That's not all. She filled our family's Manhattan law firm with Himalayan salt lamps and energy crystals.The espresso in the conference room? Replaced with gluten-free, organic dandelion root tea."The energy here is so murky," she'd say. "We need to cleanse the world with love and light!"My guilt-ridden parents gave her everything she wanted. Even my fiancé told me, "Ava, you stole twenty years of her Upper East Side life. Can't you cut her some slack?"The day of the final hearing for our firm's biggest case, the entire court had to wait for her to finish her "emotional cleansing meditation."The judge was furious. I stood up. Delivered a flawless closing argument. I won our client $500 million and secured the future of the firm.But at the party, she had a drunken break

All eyes were on me.I met Damon's sharp gaze, then turned to Chloe."Chloe, I need to confirm," I said, my voice calm and clear. "This case involves a $500 million settlement and the reputation of Miller & Associates. Are you sure you want to take it?"Chloe's face turned crimson."Ava!" she shrieked. "Are you questioning my abilities?""I'm just confirming—""You're looking down on me!" She shot up from her chair, her crystal pendant clattering against the table. "You don't think I'm fit to be a lawyer, do you?"Liam rushed to her side. "Chloe, calm down. Ava didn't mean it like that."He turned to Damon, his voice pleading. "Mr. Blackwood, please, trust us. Chloe really is a genius from Yale Law. She's just... she's not used to the murky energy of this industry.""Murky energy?" Damon's voice was ice. "Counselor, I don't care about energy. I care about results."He walked to the window, looking down at the river of traffic in Manhattan."My company has already lost two hundred milli

His chair slammed into the railing behind him with a loud crash.His face was beet red, his finger trembling as he pointed at me. "Ava, do you have any idea what you're doing?""She's a traitor!" Margaret shrieked, her voice echoing through the courtroom. "She betrayed the Miller family!"Richard was shaking with rage. "Twenty years! We raised you for twenty years! And this is how you repay us?"Chloe's eyes were wide, her crystal pendant clinking as she trembled."How could you stand with them?" Her voice was shrill. "Their energy is so broken! They're all bottom-feeders and parasites!""They'll pollute your soul!" she continued to scream. "Ava, you've been blinded by dark forces!"The judge slammed his gavel. "Silence!"The loud crack silenced the room instantly."This is a court of law, not a flea market!" the judge's voice was severe. "Anyone else who disrupts these proceedings will be held in contempt!"The three of them at the defense table finally sat down, but their eyes were s

Outside the courthouse, the sunset was the color of blood.Mrs. Miller was holding up Mr. Miller, whose face was as gray as a corpse.Chloe followed behind them, sniffling. Her shiny, rhinestone-covered scooter was nowhere in sight.So she can walk just fine, I thought to myself.Liam rushed up to me, his eyes bloodshot."Ava, are you happy now?""For one case, for a moment in the spotlight, you let the Miller family, our law firm, go down in flames?"The mask of the gentle society wife shattered. She lunged at me, screaming like a wild animal."You ungrateful snake! The Miller family raised you for twenty years, and this is how you repay us?"I stopped walking.I turned around slowly and looked at the three of them."The best education?" I let out a small laugh. "You mean forcing me to turn down an art scholarship to go to law school?""Because your ideal daughter was supposed to be a lawyer, so I had to become one?"Margaret froze. "That... that was for your own good...""For my own

The next morning at 6 AM, my phone rang incessantly, jolting me awake.Ethan's voice came through the line, urgent and tense. "Don't go downstairs, and don't drive your car!""What?" I sat up in bed."Turn on the TV. NBC morning news."I fumbled for the remote and turned on the television.The screen showed footage of me walking out of the courthouse yesterday, overlaid with a sensational headline:"GREEDY LAWYER BETRAYS BENEFACTORS, SELLS CONSCIENCE FOR CASH"The female anchor's voice was sharp."According to inside sources, Ava Miller has a long history of embezzling client funds and has had improper relationships with multiple judges..."I let out a cold laugh.Damon's methods were indeed professional. He had woven a perfect web of lies overnight."It gets worse," Ethan's voice came through the phone. "Someone tampered with your car.""What do you mean?""Someone cut your brake line," he said. I could hear the raw fear in his voice. "If you had driven home last night, you'd be a cor