sula Hotel, Kanesha stood on the wet sidewalk, shivering beneath her designer ja
rooked, and her mascara
clerk handed over the stamped document, Jaylon spotted two photographers across the street, shoved
ard room reservation under his assistant's n
tood with two security guards, his professio
ent explicitly instructed us that the suite key can only be released to him in
as she waved her temporary certificate in his face. "I
nager replied, stepping back. "Please do not block the
er the awning, whispering behind their shopping
ntly by a torrential downpour that soaked her silk bl
tcases out of the gutter, a deep, rhyt
fth Avenue traffic and pulled smoothly up
he central vehicle r
rain from her eyes
oe. She was wearing an ivory cashmere coat, holding a hot takeaway
pped her luggage handles and lunged toward the car. "What are yo
n five feet of the door, the f
ck umbrella with a sharp snap. He stood like a stone wall betw
cutting through the storm. "Do not
sting in pure rage. "You call her that? Augustus is
looked past her to the hotel's head of
d vagrants to harass the wife of Augustus C
ignaled four large guards, who grabbed Kanesha by the a
cking her wet heels in the puddles. "My husba
or as he leaned in slightly. "Mrs. Collins, the private lane to the Long Isl
eet through the open window: "Thank you, Mike. Let's h
inside. "A real Collins man never leaves his w
ashing a wall of dirty street water over Kanesha's Louis Vuitt
pounding her fists against the concrete as onlo
in the side mirror for only a second befor
toward the private, heavily guarded s
Collins Manor swung open automatic
anicured lawns, with the stone manor rising l
staff in dark uniforms stood in two per
pped out
a set of brass keys and an encrypted tablet. "Mr. Collins has instructed us that t
nk you. Please have hot tea
awling suite overlooking the gardens. A fire crackled warm
ag on the armchair an
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