e, the endless stream of traffic a blur. For the
. Friends? After five years of marriage to Jace, her world had
of was her childhood home. A pl
e the driver the address
ultra-rich to a modest, middle-class neighborh
er stepmother, Pamela Stephens. Dressed in a tasteful lounge set, her face regis
ou have a fight with Jace?"
ry couple fights. You can't just run out like thi
ce heavy with exhaustion. "We're getting a
ith panic. "Are you insane? Do you have any
is glasses. He frowned at her. "Pamela is right, Ellery. Don't be so i
ed to be her family. They weren't worried about
. "I just need a place to stay for a few
put you? Your brother's old room is full of junk. You
point in arguing. She sim
d away, dragging her
er as she walked down the unfamil
ugging Lily's teddy bear to her chest.
hat she had left. A few changes of clot
vely went to her w
lummeted. T
se Hawthorne, that b
her daughter's bear, that held any real
sliver of strength. She had to get it back
the deposit slip from her pocket. The bank
orne
a business rival of Jace's. He was the infamous second son of the Hawthorne family, one of Chicago's
is company, but she knew calling
darkening. She was cold and hungry. Was she
room, Blaise had tossed a card onto the nightstand. In he
coat. Deep in an inner pocket, her fingers
lack card. On it, a single name, "Blaise
her las
e man who had humiliated her, who had sto
eed to retrieve her bracelet won out over her pride. S
felt like an eternity
e rasped, laced with
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