The Priceless Wife He Threw Away

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ilence in the Maybach, sharper than the

one, her thumb hovering over the text message from her mili

said, her voice tight. "We

at her. He pressed his

tening into something he never used with his wife. "I'll find him.

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physical blow. Her lungs constricted

isting his expensive Patek Philippe watch around his

irror. "Sir, if we turn back to New York now,

ur opinion?" Kaso

toward him. Her heart ha

ts' ashes," she said, forcing the words through her

He finally turned his head, his dark e

Kason sneered. "Haylee is out there crying her eyes out over a livi

ok as she unlocked her phone, pullin

Kason. Look at t

t. He slapped the ph

or panel with a sickening cra

into her space. "A dog's life is in danger, and all

ed her. A cold, heavy numbness started a

gency shoulder, the tires screaming against

er unlock button o

t," he

at him, her jaw

door handle, h

he center console, his shoulder digging painfully

tly ripped into the cabin. The icy wa

Kason grabbed her leathe

d, and hurled the bag out into t

litary identification documents required to

er seatbelt and lunged out of the car, her knees hitting th

ammed shut behind her

aybach's engine roared. The luxury sedan acce

her hair to her face. She watched the red

ght lane. A massive wave of dirty water c

She pulled her cracked phone from her coat pocket.

hink about how

e suffocating pain in her chest evaporated, re

pened her settings and

her ruined bag and began walking

of a run-down motel off the nearest exit. She paid fo

owerhead. She let the scalding water wash away the mud

tracing the thick, jagge

tical mindset of a Delta Force operator, bu

in towel. She picked up the motel's landline p

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id of any emotion. "Initiate Alpha-level proto