Chapter 3 - The Forgotten Survivor
For twenty grueling years, Claire had built a quiet, difficult, but honorable life. Her severe amnesia had never fully faded; her past remained a terrifying, blank void filled only with vague, suffocating nightmares of intense heat and blinding smoke.
Without a family support system, Claire had worked incredibly hard just to keep a roof over her head. She bounced between minimum-wage jobs, scrubbing floors, waiting tables, and eventually taking on domestic housekeeping roles for the wealthy elite in New York.
Six months ago, desperate for a steady paycheck to cover her mounting medical bills from chronic respiratory issues—a lingering, invisible souvenir from the fire she couldn't remember—Claire had applied for a senior maid position at the sprawling, heavily guarded Moretti family estate.
When she walked into the massive mansion for the very first time, she experienced a profound, terrifying wave of overwhelming deja vu. The scent of the imported Italian leather, the specific classical music Eleanor always played in the drawing room, the taste of the chef's signature roasted lamb—it all felt intensely, impossibly familiar.
But Claire simply chalked the feeling up to her anxiety. She kept her head down, wearing her traditional black-and-white maid uniform, working silently in the background of her own ancestral home.
Eleanor, the grieving matriarch, rarely interacted with the staff. Vincent, the forty-one-year-old billionaire heir, was always traveling for aggressive corporate acquisitions. Claire remained entirely invisible to the family that had spent millions of dollars searching for her.
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However, her quiet, peaceful existence at the estate was completely shattered a month ago, when Vincent formally announced his engagement to a woman who brought absolute, toxic hell into the household.
👉 Read Part 4 to witness the vicious cruelty of the billionaire's new fiancée.
