AVA'S POV
It started with a single post.
A photo of my mother. Smiling in the backyard of her childhood home, arms around the man she had loved before the Kingsleys.
Caption: My name is Ava Belle Hart. And this is the truth they tried to erase.
The media lit up within hours. I gave the story to an independent journalist, someone not bought by the Kingsleys, someone who had once exposed corruption in the oil sector. She didn't ask for gossip. She asked for facts. And I gave them.
DNA tests. Handwritten letters. Birth certificates. Forged court documents. A paper trail even a Kingsley couldn't erase.
By noon, my name was everywhere. Not as a runaway. Not as a scandal. But as a survivor. A witness.
Headlines read:
"Heiress No More: Ava Hart Exposes Kingsley Empire" "A Daughter's Truth Unravels a Dynasty" "The House That Lies Built: Inside the Kingsley Deception"
