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few faded shirts into my canvas backpack, making sure my silver needles
's Beta secretary rapped on the do
to Miss Danae's banquet tomorrow night," the secretary said coldly. "If
c allowance couldn't even buy a
backpack over my shoulder and walking
per, Jerilynn Lara-a loyal former servant who had protected me sinc
as been prepared as you instructed," Je
at the new contact saved as "Kingsley." Af
, gravelly voice came through over the h
y tone strictly business. "We need to get our stori
the other end, followed by a qui
road and stopped outside the grand iron gates of the manor. Kingsley st
ed limestone villa, a flicker of sharp cur
could ask. "Don't get the wrong idea. This place belongs to a wealthy f
casting a shadow over my head as his crisp scent of
pretty generou
ing a broke rideshare driver wouldn't know the rea
loor. "That's your room. We share the kitchen and living room, but the
and leaned back lazily, crossing his long legs with t
handwritten sheet of paper over the glass table. "Tomorrow night, my adoptive family i
his gaze lingering on the wo
humiliate yo
ing a sip of water from a crystal glass. "So you'll have to put
s onto mine, his voice droppin
table, closing the distance between us until h
is gaze dropping to my li
kling with heat as I jerked back against my ch
dangerous smirk curving his mouth. "Ha
e my flustered pulse. "Then it's settled! I'm going upst
the grand staircase
bedroom door shut on the second floor, I leaned against the wood and pressed a hand to
laptop awake. An encrypted email from t
confirmed. Bring your new mate onto a live vide
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