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sliding over the che
housand
awthorne Group logo, a brand seare
y, her small face pale against the hospital pillows, flashed behind her
for Lily'
a stark contrast to the worn fabric of her coat pocket
lung low on his hips. Blaise Hawthorne. His dark hair was damp, his eyes sharp and pre
e dropping to the floor. She needed to escape
said, her voice a raw whisper, sh
her husband, Jace Landry, a
f ice against glass the only sound in the room. He poured a
bare, but a faint, white mark circled th
, his voice a low, amused dra
at made her gasp for air. She bit down hard
ned, her hand clutching the edge of her coat, and walked to
h the doorknob when his voice c
rgot so
, she tu
thumb and forefinger. A silver bracelet, one
nged for it, a desperate, clumsy movement. It was the most pr
hand out of her reach, a
t back?" He slipped the bracelet into the pocket of his
olently in her pocket. The screen
e yanked the phone out and stabbed the decline button, he
was gone, replaced by something deeper, more calculating. H
uld only glare at him before yanking th
t the cold metal wall as the doors slid shut.
aged face. Bruises, shaped like fingerpr
a single, hot tear traced
over the inside, where a delicate, swirling 'E' was engraved. The image of a girl in
t you to look into Jace Landry's recent financi
ling window, staring down at
d her system, clearing a fraction of the fog in her head. She clutched
gilded cage of the Landry e
. The funeral home was waiting.
he machine, her phone vibra
home tomorrow. We need to discu
ing around her heart, squeezi
her. That man. He was still using
e machine whirred, and the new balance flas
and walked aimlessly down
between her and Jace Landry was a reckoning. And the dangerous man
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