ral was
didn't
f cash, the kind of expensive flowers
chen sink, watching the faces
pers I'd scrawled on a cocktail napkin. It was the onl
slammed open, s
ng off his jacket, tossin
d on the napki
irreversible crease into it as he read
" he snarled, tossing th
missed your brother's funeral? Camilla's been unwell, sh
ntrum," I said
ing anywhere.
on slipped out bef
ck of heels on marb
of my silk robes, a
r collarbone and chest. She had one hand dramatically
e a carefully controlled tremor. "The baby... I
his whole posture softening ins
placing his bro
," he murmured to her, lo
said, my voice sha
s hand on the counter
e. She needs the big bath for her ba
your mistress
ted, the veins in his neck standing out
I wouldn't have needed someone else! Don't be so self
they passed right through, leav
why I couldn't
e I'd taken shrapnel
hrapnel that tore
u," I said quietly, the memo
n an ambush. I shielded him, took several shots, one of them
ds, so I tried to c
ithout a sec
more to him than an
was callin
e victim. You were born for this life. Camill
you could totally think of me and Camilla's kid as
, decisive. "I
Serra, don't think I'll endlessly tolerat
e my wife. You have to l
oom until the baby comes. You m
ck and followed
time, frozen in the dea
dry, I went to th
there, leaning against the
w me, her lips parting
nconcerned. "Too bad about your brother. But maybe i
in my brain
moved,
appe
a
acked throug
heek. Shock flickered in her ey
er gaze
es peeking from my waistband, th
jammed her fingers d
nd my eyes, turnin
ring pull as the
ungs refusing to work, my mou
y welling up and spilling down her face. "
rmed into
ing, playing the v
e floor, fetal, clutch
t my wound. He d
was a stain on the floor
ed, holding Camilla. "If you touch her
tallic taste fl
d on the prist
dy have,"
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