Gen
vate clinic, her knuckles bloodless. Sweat pasted her hair to her forehead. She was alone, thousaurious. A moment later,
ace a kind blur, placed a swaddled bundle in the crook of her left arm, and another in he
ust. The burning need for revenge cooled, replaced by a
day, N
spread out below him like a conquered kingdom. In his hand, he rolled a small, broken pear
othing, sir. No entry or exit records matching her descr
ttered against the wall, the sound sharp as a gunsho
n growled, the word
skin. The desperate, defiant heat of her body beneath his. The taste of her blood on h
er breathing shallow from whatever drug they had given her. He had dragged himself upright, ignoring the fire in his veins, and checked her pulse. She was alive. He remembered pulling the torn
pale face and trembling pulse beneath his fi
rs later
polished floor of Charles de Gaulle Airport. Her movements were fluid and confident, her face a mask of coo
sses. His fingers flew across the surface of a tablet, his expression one of intense concentration. He was re
utched a giant, rainbow-colored macaron. She beamed at a stern-faced
older, but no less beautiful. "Merci," she said to the flight attend
etailed analysis of the Price family's corporate finances, highlighting several exploitable lo
lips. She ruffled Theo's hair.
" she whispered, her voice muffled by the macaron
in Theo's hair. T
ce perfectly even. "We're going back to take back wh
York." The results returned images of the same lion-within-a-shield emblem he had glimpsed once when his mother thought she had thrown away all remnants of that night-a small, tarnishedia looked out the window at the familiar, jagged sk
nal. The door of the lead vehicle opened, and Julian Carlisle stepped out. He was here t
maternal elegance. Theo sat perched on a suitcase, tablet in hand
n the cover of Forbes was a stern-faced man in a bespoke suit. She tugged at
aption read. He frowned, a flicker of something unreadable crossing his small fa
l from her lawyer, to notice the exchange. In that split second of dist
nd and shot off like a
iece feeding him a stream of infuriating argument
eadfirst into the leg of his impeccably tailored trousers. Her macar
al contact, moved as one. Two of them drew their weapons, their movements swift a
h. He was about to utter a cold dismissal when he saw her face. She was looking up
apped up. Her heart stopped. She saw Izzy, a tiny pink dot
oned the cart and ran, her hee
oice cutting through the
sible recognition shot through him. It was a voice he'd heard in his dr
ring of onlookers. Her
The noise of the airport, the panicked crow
er body screamed a warning. A primal, instinctual fear coiled in her
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