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even, each toll a heavy hammer blow agains
her dress, her knuckles white. Her gaze was fixe
rs burs
ing the chill of the New York ni
even loo
long mahogany table. The sound cracked t
to the coffee table in front of her. They scattered slightly,
gn
d of any emotion, echoing
eyes wide with disbelief at the man who was, in name, h
ad stolen her voice. She could only lift a trembling
his head away in disgust. "I have no inte
t. She lowered her hand and, with a surge of desperatio
y, but his expression only grew colder, laced with re
casting a suffocating shadow. "I
hand jerked, water sloshing over the rim. He looked from Damien's rigid b
She wanted to scream, to explain, but her throat was a bl
d touched something unclean. "The agreement is gene
and threw it onto the papers.
ve ten
e liquor cabinet to pour himself a glass of whiskey
Two years. Two years since she married into the Beaumont family, an
herself in front of Damien's sister, Stella, saving her but
ted the crash out of jealousy. He hated her for it. Hat
nutes
acing the heavy crystal glass
t moved. The impatience on
enace. He grabbed her wrist, his grip like s
mbled, her other hand flying
p forward, his f
glare from Damien
u won't sign," he snarled, a cruel satisfaction in his v
in their master suite. The mattr
blue eyes burning with a mixture of
n her in an instant, his weight pinning her down
pered, the words a venomous promise, "y
ing tears. He took her with a punishing forc
broken form on the bed without a flicker of w
as if he had just compl
and cruel. "If this child is truly mine, I will keep it. As
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