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but did
He moved to stand between me and the door, blocking my exit. Hamilton and Sterling followed
proud. It was serious. Pleading. "Harmony, I'
I never made you a
ne. He was playing his final card. "You didn't. But your m
place. My master. The one person in the world who had ever mattered. T
y only w
narrowed, sensing he had just been given a crucial piec
ied, he told me his heir would repay it for him, should I ever call it in." He
as r
y, seeing the reluctant acceptance in my eyes. "I just need
orporation were pressuring him to have Hamilton marry into another powerful clan, a mov
an unknown, a complete outsider ... it will throw them into
man's promise against my own freedom. The silence stretche
my composure was restored. "One month," I said, my voice flat and businessli
heodore's face. "Of
h a thunderous expression, finally spoke. His voi
t. This is a transaction between your grandfather and me. You are simply a
elined in his own home by a girl he despise
erting his authority as the Alpha. "As the Carter hei
own pride, Hamilton let out a short, harsh soun
ered to him, "This is insan
y, but the look in h
one. I turned
t Hamilton drive you home. You t
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at each other, and the mutual, unadulterated loathing
r, down the stone steps, and along the winding gravel pa
Hamilton paced like a caged wolf. Sterling, trying to distra
t's official. That mystery chess grandmaster, 'H', just accepted
r months, he had been obsessed with the anonymous player 'H', who had appeared from nowhere and d
his anger. He stopped
Online match,
ntract were forgotten. All that mattered was the game.
ged to the woman he had just b
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