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I watch as pained looks cross each and everyone of their faces and it fills me with great pleasure.

What started off as revenge on a guy who didn’t deserve the benefit of the doubt turned to a steeled confidence that would only grow harder as the years went by.

No one would ever make me, Vivian Kelley, feel small and immaterial again.

CHAPTER ONE

VIVIAN

Present Day

“Brand New Bitch” - COBRAH

When life breaks you at an early age, one of two things happen. You either let the pain consume you, becoming a withering victim who cowers and hides from the world, or you let it fuel you. You let the rage and embarrassment of your naiveté spark a fire that destroys all evidence of that weak person who once existed. You burn it to ashes and welcome the emergence of a new you into the world.

You nurture this new person. You feed it the confidence that the old you never had. You vow to never let anyone push you over; that you’ll never be a doormat. And you bloom into the woman you were always destined to be.

Dare I say–ironically–a phoenix.

A rebirth.

A warrior, badass bitch who will step all over whoever she needs to in order to always rise above the flames.

And that is exactly who I, Vivian Kelley, became.

A no holds bar, sweet faced, bitch who takes no prisoners and leaves a wake of carcasses of those she chewed up and spit out. Particularly men.

So what if I’m known as Vixen Vivian. I wear that name like a fucking badge of honor. I earned it. I know what I want and I know how to get it. Obstacles be damned.

So when a breaking development comes across my desk that rattles my very core, all I can do is scream at that meek little girl to stay gone because I’m in charge now, and I won’t let anything or anyone hurt her again.

ESPN Breaking News:

Trade talks are buzzing with the news that

NYC Bombers pitcher, Phoenix West, may be

headed…West.

Will the MVP All-Star pitcher find a new home

with the Houston Wranglers? Will West finally

get that coveted World Series title that’s

alluded him? Will his return from Tommy John

surgery slow him down? And will the Wranglers

beat the trade deadline and steer themselves

into a championship.

ESPN analysts will keep you updated on this

and other breaking news.

No. Fucking. Way!

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