na's
tant, the cold air from the
but stripped of
uffed against somethi
oked
across the tiles, some stil
one up, my fingers
-definition,
ther on a bed, their bodies pre
images lay scatter
N
ef tore me apart
hispers echoe
nd fear, face st
had se
se into her secure ro
he end were for the silent
what kind of mons
ver made for him, every reason I'd
ver me, slowing the
a cruel
ho the k
was Julian's mistr
spital and go
re Julian
at a hote
nce; the soldiers stationed there recogni
the gran
of Cuban cigars, expensive oud, a
ows near the bar,
und
inst a marble pillar, making
wives whispered a
lly going to legitimize his mistress
om Julian, a triumpha
elessly posting a photo of
ian into publicly
d and noticed me stan
ok ashamed,
make a scene, or I'll pull the plug o
as comple
no love. Just a
both hands. Startled by th
tepped around him and slap
ugh the low music, creatin
her reddened cheek, stumb
a boss instin
't defend h
, shielding me with his b
e growled, aggressively asserting
hand, his fingers dig
ake smile for
to the room, his grip crushing my knuckles. "We'
made my
d my ha
key from a passi
lian, I poured it di
is hair, dripping d
," I said loudly. "Marrying y
from his eyes, his ja
gh, glancing ar
missed coldly. "Go home, Sie
alone. I did
er and got into
t," I told
ght to German
an returned to th
mpty house. The sil
n the stov
e line w
d from the hallways, an unknown fear,
en and rushed to the foyer
enn
asn'
the Mat
ew a thick stack of p
r son with cold,
r Rossi families," she advised bluntly. "That
dened, disbelief
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