Revenge Looks Good on Me (Amelia and Sebastian) novel Chapter 4

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Ryan silently said a prayer for the idiot who’d done it. They’d spiked Eleanor’s IV drip with something th caused the massive clot and nearly killed her.

Messing with Sebastian? That guy’s gonna die like a dog in some dark alley.

“What about Amelia…?”

“Don’t touch her,” Sebastian said flatly. “If she can handle a little family drama like this, she has no busin becoming the Sterling family’s mistress.”

The Sterling house looked perfect from the outside–elegant, powerful, untouchable. Inside? It was a sha tank. Pretty faces, zero mercy.

Sebastian watched Amelia’s figure disappear into the crowd. Behind the gold–rimmed glasses, his icy eye suddenly warmed with dark amusement, and the corner of his mouth ticked up.

“Amelia,” he murmured, “don’t you dare disappoint me.”

Amelia still went back to the Bennett mansion–she had something important she needed to grab.

The second she stepped through the front door, the housekeeper Martha’s snide voice hit her like nails c chalkboard. “Oh, I thought Sophia was home. Turns out it’s just the little country bumpkin. Mr. and Mrs. Bennett aren’t even here–what the hell are you doing back?”

Amelia didn’t bother answering. She walked straight upstairs and pushed open the door to the storage

room.

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It was a mess–boxes everywhere, dust thick in the air. A tiny single bed was crammed into the only emp corner. That was her “room.” Ever since she’d been brought back, Sophia started having all these mysteri health problems. Laura Bennett dragged in a fortune teller who claimed Amelia’s “star sign” clashed with Sophia’s, so they shoved her in this closet to “trap her evil energy.”

Amelia almost laughed.

Calling straight–up favoritism something fancy and spiritual? Real classy.

She grabbed what she came for, slung a small backpack over her shoulder, flicked open a lighter, and set pile of cardboard boxes on fire.

As the flames started climbing, she gave a cold snort. “Thanks for all the ‘love‘ these past few years. Here’s my goodbye present.”

She walked out and ran straight into Julian.

The whole Bennett family had been hunting her since the hospital scene. Julian figured the bodyguards failed, so he came home on a hunch–and actually found her.

“Amelia, I knew you were vicious. Causing that scene at the hospital and now sneaking back to steal stuff

Julian had always hated her–the “country sister” who didn’t belong. He loved accusing her of theft. He w one of Kingsley’s top lawyers, but somehow he swallowed every lie Sophia fed him, no matter how full o holes.

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And every time Sophia framed her, Julian would drag out the whip and lash her baakuntil it bled.

Now he was doing it again–snapping the whip in front of her face.

“Get your ass to the hospital, kneel in front of Sophia, apologize, and donate those eyes. Orebice”

O else what?” Amelia cut him off, strolling down the stairs like she owned the place. “You’ll keep whipp nte?”

Julian froze.

This coasn’t the scared little mouse who used to flinch at his shadow. Ever since the hospital, she was…

“You diecard me–go apologize right now!”

different

He swung the whip. In a flash, Amelia grabbed the end mid–air and yanked hard. Julian crashed to the flo groaning impam.

She stood lowerim, looking down with zero fear.used to think you guys were my real family. Look ho you treated line. Today I’m done. I’m cutting every tie with the Bennetts. No more pretending, no more sucking up.

Because Laura onoces said, “A proper noble girl is gentle and never solves problems with force,” Amelia had hidden every skillsteellaad.

Because Laura said, “Sophia’s had a hard life–can you stop trying to outshine her?” Amelia started hand in blank test papersstheesseconds she got to school.

In the end, the whole family painted her as the jealous, uneducated country trash who only embarrassed

them.

Not anymore.

The moment she walked out theeffcontdoor, screams exploded behind her.

“Fire! Amelia set the house on fire—someone call or help!”

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Amelia slung her little backpack overlierstionide and stepped into Riverview Estates. She rode up to the fifteenth floor, punched in her birthdayasstfie ocolant pushed open the door to unit 502.

The second she walked in, her eyes went wide is place looked like a Pinterest board exploded. Warm beige walls, a couch wrapped in soft pink slipeover frillygirly curtains, and a huge rug printed with two giant strawberry bears. It was straight–up adornbil

She backed out, double–checked the number, then sometinsside again. Nope–definitely the right apartment, Password matched. She scratched her ad

Did Sebastian have a secret split personality? The guy eryone kingston called the lee King of Hell… and he decorated like this? For real?

“You must be Amelia,” a cheerful voice said behinder.

She turned. A woman in a sharp business suit was pushing a rolling card loaded with food, smiling like the

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were old friends.

“I’m Natalie Brooks, Mr. Sterling’s secretary. This is your lunch–enjoy!”

Natalie wheeled everything inside and started setting the table while Amelia stood there blinking.

“Uh… who picked out the decor?” Amelia asked, waving at the pink explosion.

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Natalie didn’t even miss a beat. “Mr. Sterling personally ordered it. He said it should feel like a wedding suite.” She slid a brand–new phone across the table. “He also wanted you to call him later.”

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