When The Tables Turned
READING AGE 16+
Danika Viona is the spoiled only daughter of the Viona empire - used to being the center of every room.To protect her from her own recklessness, her father adopts Elliot Sylvanus, a boy one year younger than her. Quiet, brilliant, and grateful, Elliot endures years of her bullying: ruined homework, stolen meals, cut uniforms - believing it's because he's not real family.But the truth is different. He was adopted to inherit the company. And her parents always looked away because she was their precious daughter.On Elliot's 24th birthday, the shares are transferred. His adoptive parents leave for retirement, trusting him to manage the company - and to spoil Danika like they always did.They don't know what he's endured.Danika comes home drunk at 10 PM to find her house decorated for his birthday. Old habit kicks in - she starts to destroy it."Fucking... annoying... birthday shit...!"Only this time, someone finally grabs her wrist and stops her.This birthday, the power shifts.
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The world outside the high arched windows of the Viona foyer seemed to vanish, reduced to the suffocating vacuum of the space between them. Her knuckles, buried deep in the fine wool of his lapel, whitened as the fight drained out of her limbs, leaving behind a hollow, trembling disbelief. The sharp, rehearsed cadence of her Parisian life—the bo……
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