she had envisioned this going. "I don't think that's appropriat
ng no room for argument. He raised a hand, signaling a waiter. "A g
ving, yet it sent a strange, t
is gaze like an X-ray, "you
own green gaze unflinc
more interesting than he'd thought. She wasn't like the othe
by a single lamp. The curve of her waist as she sat, the way she tilted her chin when she was trying to hide her emotions, the faint floral note that rose from her skin whenever s
the cool liquid a welcome distraction. She could
hem. Chloe's mind raced, se
a bomb into the quiet. "Mi
er, coughing violently.
eaning forward again. The cold scent of cedar
honestly, dabbing h
nd?" he
..
if this was exactly the an
hat would echo in her min
Miss Hayes, let
y blank. She must have misheard. She
a joke in his cool blue eyes. In fact, there was a glint of som
u say?" Chloe's
e. My grandmother has made it clear that the Sinclair heir must be married by the end of this quarter, or she will beg
t? Panic flared in Chloe's ch
that would send their stepdaughter to a man with a
m Chloe's face. He kn
Sinclair intelligence network. "That was more than enough to confirm your stepmother's delightful habit of sabotaging you. The Tucker file, by the way, include
hloe's spine. She was comp
ve the title of Mrs. Sinclair and a black card with no spending limit. The prenuptial agreement will state that this is a partnership.
ourse, I can help you take care of any... problems you wish to
ghter over the car speaker. Tiffany's giggling confession. "A pig pushing 200 pounds is exactly what that kin
ng her the means to
r ribs. Revenge. He was offering
giving her the power and protection to
d to a complete stranger-a powerful
e, any sign that this was some elaborate joke. There was none. He was utter
think," Chloe
them, the world contracting to the small space between their two chairs. The single rose on the table trembled slightl
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