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P dressing room. She pulled a deep breath into her l
rty. It was supposed to be th
k phone suddenly lit up. The harsh white glare
her private assistant
d up the device. Her thum
ypted email. The subject line was empty. The only con
nease crawled up th
red for a second before a high-defini
tage was from exactly one hour ago. The locati
's breat
st the edge of a king-sized bed. His hands were tan
w her head bac
le. Cordelia'
, her voice echoing through the phone's smal
Isabelle's neck. "She's busy playing the perfect b
thousand dollars was all it took for Marlene to send Rosa a
tomach viole
up her throat. She clamped a hand ove
a frantic, painful r
hone so tightly that her knuckles turned a stark, bone-white. Thr years of compromising her own architectu
it wa
d for ten seconds. T
h her veins like ice water, freezing the nause
't cry. She d
app. She found the contact for the AV technician working the ballroom
sentence: Play this on the main screens
hit
er clutch. She turned around, her posture
brass handle and
ekeeper of five years, wa
plastered a warm, practiced smile on her face. "You l
eyes were dead, stripping th
ordelia said. Her voice was fla
drained from her face, leaving her looking like
elia stepped closer. "You're fired, Marlene. Pack your things and leave my property by
ase, let m
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or of the hallway. Each step was a hammer str
the main ballroom. The muffled sound o
ushed the
eliers hit her eyes. The ballroom was p
microphone. He wore a custom tuxedo, look
rowd, placing a hand over his heart. "I am
wed VIP balcony on the second floo
ystal whiskey glass. His dark, predatory eyes loc
d his platinum cufflink, his gaz
d brightly and walked down the steps of
announced through the m
a kept
smoothly shifted her weight and stepped
the corner of her eye, she saw Isabelle standing near th
the stairs and stopped in
reached out and snatched the microphone right o
doing?" Julian whisper
m. She raised her f
ped her
age, which had been displaying their
efinition security footage
m blasted Isabelle's moans into e
What if Cordeli
gasped. The sound sucked the
et sounds of the betrayal echoing from the speakers. Th
f wet ash. He spun around, stari
ng his arms frantically at the AV bo
oth moved. The v
her face and tried to duck behind her mother, Eleanor, but t
rushed toward the stage. Hi
r roared over the noise. "Think about the fam
er father. A cold, humorl
She pulled out a thick
ct worth hundreds of millions, tying her
he papers up to
of the stack and pul
of thick paper tearing ri
f. Then she put the pieces t
e white. Her bre
of the prenup fluttered down like dirty sn
s like a steel blade. "And as per the infidelity clause in the draft you just watched me dest
s hands grabbing at the torn
She grabbed the massive diamond ri
Julian squarely in the chest and bounne. It hit the stage with a l
ng crowd, and her ruined family. She walked t
e room surged forward like a pack of s
n set his whiskey glass down on the
is security detail standin
d. His voice was low, rough, and
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