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crushed agai
of the massive bathtub, water cascading down her face as she gasped, her chest heaving
boy named Zero Vance-slammed into her brain. She gripped the marble edge of the tub, her knuckles turning bone-white as her stomach pitched. Her gaze dropped to the floor tiles. An empt
d died. Yet here she was, breathing, shivering, t
ood, a sharp, suffocating pressure banded around her ribs. She looked down. Beneath the sheer,
ter" of the Vance family was
apping against the pristine white marble, an
ed hair hung in wet, pathetic clumps. Thick, cheap waterproof eyeliner was smear
ds into the freezing stream, and scrubbed her face brutally. She rubbed
d onto a pair of sharp grooming scissors. Shof the heavy, neon ha
n
tallic sound echoing in the massive bathroom. She sheared it all off
ammered against t
ed, his voice trembling with panic. "Please, don
rror again. Without the makeup and the ridiculous hair, the face staring back was striking. Androgynous. Leth
the door and
words died in his throat. He stared at the wet, silver hai
radiated a freezing, suffocating pressure. This
aster?" Reginald stammered,
st him, leaving a tr
she ordered. Her voice was low, ras
in that single command pinned his feet
of sequins, leopard print, and tight leather pants as
flashy garbage and threw th
lack shirt. "Young Master, those were cu
at him. The sheer, physical threat in her dark eyes made Regi
The dark fabric hugged her lean frame, instantly shift
ased in a bedazzled pink shell. She tapped the screen. The
umb moved rapidly. She opened the gallery. Thousands of
eds of unread texts sent to him. Go
s number. Dele
, walked in with a medical bag, a sneer playing on hi
e, this is a standard post-incident check-up procedure. Please cooperate," Alistair said, his voice entirel
Zero's hand shot out. She clamped her
pain. The bones in his wrist gro
Zero said, her voic
rist, cold sweat breaking out on his forehead. He didn't say ano
fa, crossing her long legs. She
er computer," Ze
ds. "Sir... the Master
ker was a dead hacker. She didn't
nner," she
ied Reginald more than an
r steak with flawless, aristocratic precision. Reginald stood in the corner,
he stood up and walked to the massive floor-to-ceiling window
rous smirk. She was alive. And she
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