reamed through a gap in the heavy curtains, painting a stripe of gold ac
Hadley Sinc
he covers, her movements clumsy with haste. She shot a panicked glance at Hadley. He was exactly as s
d urgent. The real reason she had agreed to this insane bargai
tique
mind. "It was pinned to your blanket when they fou
d been stolen from her grandmother's nursing home room a week ago. The police had been useless.
the bottom of her worn canvas backpack, she pulled out a heavily encrypted sate
ingle, coded
ine. Status
hadowy figure known only as "Ci
rp. Traced back to a single IP
The Fosters hadn't stol
ext text c
origin. Only three ever made. One was
old-money dynasties. Rivals to the Sinclairs. A
m Cipher landed li
similar locket? Eleanor Sincl
, wasn't just a random piece of jewelry. It was directly,
t a marriage contract anymore. This was a mission. She had to find that locket. The Sinclairs must have orchestrated the theft to
adley's room. Her eyes, no longer soft with sleep, we
's locket? It was a long shot, a d
, her movements as sil
tly as she leaned over him. He could smell her scent again-faint soap and something uniquely her, som
touch was light, almost clinical, but it sent a jolt of pure electricity through Hadley's feigned unconsciousness. He f
to his chest, patting down his torso through the thin silk, checking for the hard outline of a chain or a small, metal obk echoed through the
nd resting flat on
older, kind-faced man in a butle
ry, Aria lost her balance.
the waistband of his pajama bottoms and landing squarely, unmis
leau of pure mortification, shared by all three people in the
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