She Returned With The CEO's Hidden Heir

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liers and polished wood panels did little to

tore through the

ath. Her bloody hands smeared crimson streaks across the floorboards. Her s

uer, yet no one moved. Abandonment was a physical presen

n who should have protected

to Eden, I would have thrown you out the day your mother brought you into

twisted her split lips. Her half-sister had stolen the man she l

knelt bef

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d fallen away, replaced by

ed. "How does it feel, ge

, refusing to let that face

chable. You thought Eden loved

agony, Jeanne would have found the strength

ne murmured, her voice dropping to a whisper

ive. To strike back. That was th

lass with water, tossed in a handful of salt, and po

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poised to carve a permanent scar across Jeanne's face

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servants moved to block her path, closing i

er room," Alex

but her voice cut

taying right here a

gment was swift

Jeanne Lawrence

forward, scooped Jeanne up again, and staggered thro

Monica kept moving, her shoes fal

..." she

ne whispered, her v

choked out. "If you're

ospital, but the repr

was discharged and handed a on

banished from South Hampto

n, its lavish parties and gilded convers

day, she c

suitcase behind her. At her side walked a small, six-year-old boy wit

e robes of a fallen queen, her face set with the ca

r red lips were drawn in a line sharp en

invisible force. And she just kept w