The CEO Fell for His Dead Wife

that silence could hu

and intentional. The chandeliers glowed warmly above polished mar

he only thing she had been allowed to keep. Inside were her medical textbooks, pages creased, margins fille

on the cream leather sofa, composed and tidy, as if

aid, without looking up. His voice was calm, even bo

e gave you everything. And you chose to disgrace the G

at burned, but she wouldn't cry

on in the roo

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scading perfectly over one shoulder. She looked radiant-effortlessly so-like someone mean

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," she murmured. "People like yo

g behind her green eyes. "People like *you* don

cond, Sasha's

the mansion with nothing but her bag,

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h to see through her smile and a voice sounding like danger wrapped in velvet. He didn't

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just a

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, her world was f

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the little stability s

a tore her apart. Her university expelled her overnight. Her fami

it all unfold with

en Regina agreed to meet her sister one

construction site, wind whipping Re

id, stepping closer. "Medicine. Love. Freed

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he pus

ly had time

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th shock. Beside him, an older man knelt, gripping her blo

whispered. "You're

world Regina

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with a n

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called urgently. "We need you

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ical lights, she whispered a silent

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