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ushing in Eleanor Sinclair's ears. A metallic taste coated her tongue. Blood. Her
losing her!" Dr. Miller's
delivery room blurred into a blinding star. A franti
erectomy, it's the only way!" Dr. Mil
ity, held a phone to her ear. "I'
the nurse's scrubs. Her voice was a dry rattle. "Call Damian.
redialed. The room held its breath, the only sound the frant
tally clear. Mr. Hayes, Damian's assistant. "Mr. Carlis
an his wife bleeding to death. Mor
ished. A physical sensation, a final surrender. The frantic beeping of t
ed. The cold receded. Dr. Miller's voice announc
own from the ceiling. She saw her own body, pale and still on the bloo
fe. Holidays spent alone. Standing by silently as Carlisle Holdings acquired her family's compan
a physical force, crashed over her. It wasn
urned through the darkness. I would neve
nt, pulling sensation, a vorte
s flew open. She was on her back, staring at a familiar ceiling. The sheets
at bolt upright, her heart hammering against her ribs. Th
nnual real estate auction. The day Damian would bring Ashley White, his new favorite charity case. The day a piece of derelict Br
k of her hand, hard. A sharp, grounding
entered. "Mrs. Carlisle, I've prepared the
neutrals curated to reflect Damian's preference for a wife who was elega
old, indifferent voice echo
d was quiet, but it landed
g. She walked past the rows of beige and cream, to the very back of the clo
et silk with a dangerously low back. It w
ear thi
arlisle... Mr. Carlisle prefers
aw a young, beautiful face. Eleanor saw a ghost who had clawe
for myself tod
e pristine white bedspread. It looke
acquiring the Crescent Bay property. Then, once her foundation w
Damian C
something in Eleanor's gaze, a hardness th
s," Eleanor said, her tone
treated. A small shift, but the power i
and. It would be Hayes, a polite reminder to be on h
ama of power and ambition. In her last life, sh
would build h
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