ella
dormant bomb. When it finally rang, the shrill sound shattered the
the receive
ce was thick with the flu an
he nightmare unfolding in the penthouse. Sarah, the clueless temporary maid h
ella. She turned
he fridge-the one I had emptied of spares when I left, assuming he would restock it. He hadn't. While Sarah frantically called an ambulance,
the phone rang again
orridor. "The doctor tore into him, Bella. Treated the *
cking, his fragile pride bleed
, the name tasting lik
lena woke up. She cried for you. When Adriana tried to touch her, the sweet girl push
de swelled in my che
ing. "He was going to call you. I saw it in his eyes. But Ad
Dante chose his ego over our daughter's tears. He would rather let
zen on the edge of my cot when the private line-the one I had taught Elena to memoriz
to my ear, my hand tr
ma..
tly spilled over my lashes, hot and desperat
call
I heard the sound of a scuffle, the p
sickeningly sweet, fake voice echoed into the mouth
li
ear, a flat, dead sound that ech
at usurping whore, a mere *Associate's* daughter, had just severed the lifelin
d toward my encrypted telegraph machine. The air in the warehouse was growing heavy and thick,
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