Chapter 1

After the fake heiress slandered me for the ninety-ninth time, my family sold me to the most sadistic tycoon in Los Angeles.

I lay on the ground, crying and banging my head until it bled, begging them to let me go.

But my father, George, slapped me hard across the face. "You wanted to fight for attention and bully Audrey? Go to the tycoon, learn your place, and how to behave."

My brother, Holt, chimed in from the side, "Exactly! Audrey is the same age as you, so how is she so much more thoughtful and caring? If you can't learn the rules, don't ever come back!"

My mother, Mason, who once loved me the most, looked at me with a stranger's eyes. She held Audrey in her arms, and her gaze was like an icy arrow.

"Only by suffering can the lesson be etched into your bones. Only then can you understand Audrey's hardships and pain."

So I was sent away. I carried three pregnancies for the tycoon that never came to term, was handed to his rivals for humiliation, took the fall for his crimes and went to prison, had three fingers severed, was forced to crawl through crotches and bark like a dog...

In the third winter, I escaped, and died alone under a frozen bridge.

Two years later, my family wanted to draw my Rh-negative blood to save the fake heiress, but I had already been dead for five years.