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FRUSTRATION BOILED UP inside, crawling, screaming to be let out.

What to do?

It should be so simple. There were only three things worth having in life—wealth, power and physical beauty.

Yet none had been obtained, which fried the blood. Others had gotten what they wanted. Others like Terry Monteverde.... Now there was a woman who’d had it all and hadn’t even noticed. She’d lived her wild, wanton life without a single care.

Shameless.

She’d been punished for that, and that punishment had been quite satisfactory.

Only that satisfaction hadn’t lasted long, not when the family reputation and success lived on through Terry’s younger sister.

Nina Monteverde. Sweet and lovely. Beloved by all.

Just thinking about it had the bitterness and fury burning inside all over again. The Monteverdes had everything, everything worth coveting.

Yet they were untouchable.

If only Terry was still alive to pay for her sins once again.

Since she wasn’t, Nina would have to do.