The Tower Reversed: Back to 18 (Venus) novel Chapter 56

Chapter 56 Sisters

“Rayne!” Lumi gasped in shock and hurried to help him.

Rayne whipped around, fury blazing in his eyes as he glared at Venus. “You-”

Venus met his gaze, expression unreadable.

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He remembered the last time she’d beaten him up. His face shifted, and he swallowed his anger, pushing himself off the floor.

He snatched the bank card from Lumi’s hand and shoved it back into the Chanel bag. “Don’t waste kindness on an ungrateful wolf. Why bother giving it to her?”

Lumi’s tone was soft and gentle. “Rayne, I just wanted to ease things between you two. Nothing more…

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Rayne’s voice rose. “I’ve only got two sisters-Lumi and Bree. Everyone else can stay out of my life. I don’t acknowledge them!”

Venus? She was nothing but a stranger who happened to share the Burns’ bloodline.

To him, Lumi wasn’t family by blood; she was better than that.

And to the Burns, Lumi was the one who truly mattered.

As for Venus, she was just a stray they’d picked up halfway; one with a rotten personality.

“Rayne…” Lumi’s eyes turned red as tears welled up. She tugged lightly at his sleeve.

Venus looked detached.

Once, words like those would’ve stung and made her wonder if she truly didn’t belong.

Now? She couldn’t care less.

No matter how cruel the Burns brothers got, their words couldn’t touch her anymore.

Rayne noticed Venus standing there like an outsider, her gaze cold, as if none of this concerned her.

“Venus!” he snapped. “I’ve heard the whole thing. Lumi tried to help you out of kindness, and you threw it in her face. Let me make this clear-I’ll never accept you as my sister!

“You. Don’t. Deserve it.”

Venus smirked. “Then hear this-you and the entire Burns family don’t deserve to be mine either.”

“Don’t come crawling back later, begging me to return.”

“Kneel and beg you to come back?” Rayne burst out laughing, his voice dripping with disdain. “You? Tell me -what’s so special about you that we’d beg?

“Before you start dreaming, maybe take a look at the reality and the gap between us.

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Chapter 56 Sisters

“You think anyone would kneel for you? Know your place!

“Lumi, let’s go. Stop wasting time with people like her.”

Rayne yanked Lumi along and, as he left, gave Venus a mocking glare.

Venus almost laughed.

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In her past life, when she’d risen as the Oracle Supreme and become a household name, she remembered vividly how Rayne had once knelt before her in the rain, begging for mercy.

At that time, the Burns’ finances had collapsed, and their children faced disaster one after another.

Rayne had it the worst.

He’d already reached the peak of fame as a movie star, but then came the tax scandal that destroyed his image. To claw his way back, he even traveled to Southeast Meridia to find a sorcerer and brought home a spirit doll for luck. You can imagine how that ended.

The doll turned against him. His name was ruined, his career crashed, his wife left, and his life was in danger.

At his lowest point, Rayne had turned to her. He’d knelt outside her door for seven days and nights, voice hoarse. “Venus, please … save me …

me…”

Well, he was a superstar for a reason. He knew how to perform.

Venus didn’t care. She left the advertising firm with her usual calm.

She had just stepped outside when someone called out to her.

“Venus!”

It was Darcy.

He jumped out of his car and hurried toward her. “I was just about to send my secretary to find you.”

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