d-stained palms against the car window. Her throat burned as
ashing through rainwater
ved her without looking away, as
e men rushing toward her, then looked back at him. Her face had gone pale, and tears clung
d at the corner of
driver pressed the gas, and
.
ar sped through the night, and the kidnappe
breathing. She
the driver take her back to the
hone from her pocket
reen, and she wiped it away
d calls, no messages, not even a
d whatever fragile hope she had
blink away the tears t
fted her chin and met the man's ga
th his long fingers, opened his account
ight after that, she sent thirty
ng her head up to look at the man. He stood a head taller than he
ps as he sent her a message
her own in respons
d at him again. "Thank you for saving
trip," Asher replied b
away, his thoughts
tiful impression, yet beneath that softness li
eft out in the cold. She should
ain stirred an unexpected se
Scarlett's plane finally touc
ed for a ride and headed straight to Sky Esta
t he was still by Roselyn's side, holding her
ved across her lips as ir
on the computer, and printed two copies of the divorce agreeme
into the bedroom and bega
the bed caught her eye, and the sig
nto the mattress, yanked the frame off
as the glass shattered, and broken
wedding photo could never
stepped across the broken glass and p
as the only thing she planned to leave with. Inside, she placed a few washed-out T-shirts, an old pa
had given her to maintain the image
se downstairs and set the signed divorce
k at the entrance b
face. The moment he noticed the ruined wedding port
g, he strode t
y?" Ezra asked, his b
kept moving. "Did you expect me to stay t
ime?" he said, his tone sharp with impatience. "I already told you on the phone. Rosel
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