The Night They Burned Me, I Was Reborn
READING AGE 18+
They poured the gasoline while I was still breathing.
My husband held the match. My sister held my hand — so I couldn't run.
I died in that fire, listening to them laugh about the inheritance my father left me.
Then I opened my eyes. Three years earlier. The morning of the engagement gala. Everyone I love and everyone who killed me — still alive, still smiling, still thinking I'm the fool who'll sign her fortune away for love.
This time, I know how the story ends. This time, I'll be the one holding the match.
But there's a man across the ballroom watching me like he's seen a ghost — the one man I rejected in my first life. The one man who shouldn't know I died.
So why is he looking at me like he's been waiting three years for me to come back?
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CHAPTER 9 — The Offer in the Dark
Crane stood in the doorway like he'd been there the whole time.
Maybe he had. Elena was learning that the rules she'd trusted her whole life — that doors made sound, that men announced themselves, that the dead stayed dead — did not apply to this man.
"You're not invited out here," Lucian sa……
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