From Ruin, She Rose Novels & Stories

Panting, I stared at the shoes approaching me, lying face down. “Here I thought you were strong and responsible,” a deep voice resonated in the bathroom. It took me a few moments to realize whose voice it was. But when I did, I tried to get to my feet but my body failed me again. “I would have stamped on your face, but I can’t have my shoes dirty with shit. These are the same shoes I bought from your money. Remember what you did to the slave market that sold Carys?” Ruin said. He squatted in front of me, his elbows over his knees as he grabbed my hair again and lifted my face inches away from the floor.

For the first time, the walls of her lies crumbled. She knew at this moment she was ruined. TBC

Her reflexes kicked in immediately. Rather than falling onto the floor, she lunged forward. The next second— She crashed directly into Julian's arms. Her wide eyes lifted in shock. And met the depths of his dark, unreadable gaze. In her panic, Rue quickly tried to regain her balance. Instinctively, she grabbed for the nearest thing she could find. Unfortunately, both hands landed squarely on the towel wrapped around Julian Vanderbilt's waist. The result of pulling too hard was immediate— The towel slipped straight to the floor.

Xiuying was actually woke up in the middle of their travel but decided to pretend to see what the prince plans for her, to be abducted in the middle of the night. She can't help but gently trace his cheeks, nose and lastly his lips with her fingers but her eyes held a complicated gaze. At first she was shock to see a face so familiar, the face of the last person she placed all her hopes in previous life only for that same person to die protecting her during her escape. "Raine..." an almost whisper call reach her ears as they run. "Guzheng, they are almost here..." Raine tried to be strong but fear and helplessness still creeps in her bones and tightly holds her heart.

She was as beautiful as the rose in front of her. She took out an envelope containing different photos of different people in it, she stared at the image with a mixture of rage and disgust. “Revenge!!!“ She yelled as she fell to the ground crying” “I'll neither sleep nor rest until you all are dead!!”

He paused, and the silence was louder than his shouting. "You’re not the woman I fell in love with," he said quietly. The words felt like a knife in my chest. "It’s still me, Liam," I choked out. "I’m still the same girl. I just... I made a horrible mistake. I got lost. But I’m still here. I’m still Maya."

All she needed was Clarisa—and the dignity she had just reclaimed. As they descended the stairs, Emely and Vanes stood there with mocking smiles. “Oh, the drama queen is finally leaving?” Emely sneered, sipping her tea. “Good. This house will finally be free of parasites.” Vanes only smiled faintly, stroking her still-flat stomach. “Be careful on the road, Sister Serena. Don’t faint on the street.” Serena paused at the grand door. She turned slightly toward them, offering a smile that sent a chill down Vanes’s spine. “Enjoy your temporary victory, Vanes. Because the real story has only just begun.”

“Then walk in like you’ve already won it.” I glanced at her, and for a moment the noise of the room fell away, the way it always did when she looked at me like that, steady and certain even with everything stacked against us. Six hours ago she’d been kneeling in broken glass beside her mother, shaking almost as badly as Naomi had been.

She wiped her tears away with the palms of her hands, then tucked them away in her purse before beginning to look for something. _Get up! "Huh?". _Get up!!! She was instructed to rise up by the voice, and as soon as she did so, she noticed that a knife had been inserted into the area of the chair in which she had been seated before. "I missed... How could I have possibly failed to hit you? Why did you stand so you could avoid being stabbed? How dare you!." The woman raged, her expression turned even more distorted. Esme's expression of surprise grew more exaggerated as she fell backwards. Izayah immediately leaped forward in an effort to save Esme when he noticed that Esme was falling. He re