The Heiress Revived from the Ashes (Lauren Bennett) novel Chapter 264

Chapter 264 Revenge Is Mia’s Love Language
Mia’s fists tightened as she listened, nails biting into her palms.
Laurie’s life was destroyed. And the one who did it thinks she gets to walk away and live peacefully?
I never agree with that.
Finished
A flash of frost-cold rage lit up in Mia’s eyes. Without a word, she spun on her heel and headed into the internet café right next to the bar.
Inside, it was dim, the room lit only by the glow of screens lining each row. The hum of machines and the soft click of keyboards filled the air.
Mia scanned the space, found an open seat, and sat down. Her hands flew over the keyboard with practiced precision.
Line after line of code flew across the monitor, the flickering blue light casting sharp shadows across her face. There was something steely and cold in her expression now-she was in the zone.
After a few minutes, she stopped.
Every surveillance camera within a half-mile radius had been disabled. Their signals jammed, the footage frozen on a single frame, like time itself had been paused.
The script she just ran was set to self-delete in exactly 1 hour.
By then, the cameras would be back to normal. But one hour was more than enough for what she had in mind.
Mia stood, calm and composed, and walked out of the café.
By now, Brendan and Brielle had already scrambled into their car. The engine revved and within seconds, they’d vanished into the night.
The woman stayed behind, alone in front of the bar, her face lit up with glee.
“Hahaha!” Her laugh rang out loud and sharp in the stillness, manic and jarring.
Mia squinted slightly, her eyes locked on the woman like a hawk. Her gaze was ice-cold.
So that’s the price of someone else’s suffering…
“I never thought beating up one useless b*tch in prison would make me this much money,” the woman was muttering to herself, giddy with greed. “Way better than running a business. Back then, I couldn’t even make 1,300 dollars a month. But this 140,000 dollars? I’d need ten years of scraping by to save that much. All I had to do was serve five years and bam-huge payday.”
The more she talked, the more twisted her grin became. “Shame she got out before me. If she’d stuck around a little longer, I could’ve found a reason to go back inside and beat her down again. Probably would’ve made even more money off it. Still… 140,000 dollars should last me a good while. And if it doesn’t? I’ll just knock on the Gray family’s door again.”
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Chapter 264 Revenge Is Mia’s Love Language
She whipped around, glaring. “You scared the shit out of me. Are you trying to get yourself killed?”
Finished
But Mia didn’t flinch. She just stared, calm and deadly. Her eyes were locked on the woman like she was watching a pitiful act on a stage-no fear, no emotion, just cold contempt.
The woman shifted under Mia’s stare, visibly unsettled. The longer Mia held her gaze, the more pissed off she got.
“The hell you lookin’ at, b*tch?” she snapped. “Keep staring and I’ll rip your damn eyes out!”
Mia’s response was a slow, wide grin-unnerving and out of place in the dim glow of the streetlights. It sent a chill straight through the air.
This woman had never come across someone like Mia.
She’d always been the bully-before prison, especially in prison. She’d thrived off intimidation, earned a reputation as someone you didn’t mess with. People usually backed down the moment she stepped forward.
But Mia? She wasn’t backing down. She wasn’t even blinking.
“You really wanna die today,” the woman hissed. Her face twisted with rage as she cocked her arm back and swung-aiming to slap Mia hard enough to leave a mark.
It looked like she meant to tear her face off.
But Mia didn’t even flinch. Her eyes stayed locked, her expression calm, almost amused.
Right before the slap landed, Mia’s hand shot up-and in a flash, she pulled a knife from her pocket, driving the blade straight up into the woman’s palm.
Shlick.
The blade drove clean through with deadly precision.
Blood gushed immediately. The woman screamed-raw, ragged, and gut-wrenching.
“Ah-!”
Every trace of swagger vanished.
Mia stared at her with a half-smile, still holding the knife. Then, slowly, she twisted it.
The woman howled even louder, collapsing to her knees, trembling violently from the pain.
Mia leaned in slowly, crouching until her face was just inches from the woman’s.
“Feels pretty damn good, doesn’t it-hurting someone? Don’t you agree?”
The woman’s skin turned chalk white. Her eyes were wild with fear as she shook her head frantically. “Please… please don’t… I was wrong… I’m sorry…”
Mia blinked slowly. The look might’ve passed as innocent on anyone else—but coming from her, it was
bone-chilling