“So, what do you say, beautiful?”The young heir to the conglomerate, William Dupont, fixed his deep blue eyes on my adoptive sister, Joanne Clack.“Come back to Marlovia with me for a vacation. In exchange, your whole family gets to walk out of this alive. That’s a pretty good deal, don’t you think?”My hot-tempered seventh brother, Frederick Clack, yelled, “Get lost, William! You’re out of your mind if you think you can push us around like this!”He tried to lunge out of his chair, but William’s bodyguard shoved him firmly back down. He could not move an inch.William was unfazed. He just glanced contemptuously at the furious Frederick.He then turned and walked toward Joanne with a smile.She was trembling uncontrollably with fear. But as he approached us, she quietly stood in front of me. I sat in the corner of the living room and watched her shield me.The truth was, before the Clack family found me, I had just faked my own death on the mountain and fled.As the only
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