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l hangover pounded behind her temples as the blinding Manhattan morning light flooded the
lurred with panic as she stiffly turned her neck, coming face-to
he edge of the mattress to escape the crime scen
th a dull thud. Before she could scramble off the bed, the heavy arm aroun
n those sharp, gray-blue irises, only a crushing weight of scru
against his pecs, the heat of
mered, pushing agains
and rolled out of bed in one fluid motion, exposing a bro
pet, and stepped into them without sparing her a single glance,
stinging with shame. She bit her lower lip hard and scanned the
chanical watch from his suit jacket pocket, and snapped the clasp shute blocking the sunlight and cas
d, his voice deep and flat. "Troublesome
isted the silk sheet in her fists an
sir," she said, her voice shakin
back. He walked back to the edge of the mattress and leaned down
chin, forcing her head up as a dark
his thumb brushing the corner of her jaw, "I have very destru
ure on her jaw. She wrenched her face o
now. I need to
htening his spine. He walked over to the solid wood des
ays and put it on my tab," he told the hotel butler on the
ning in confusion as the man who had just t
custom suit jacket over his forearm
er out of the corner of his eye at the small figure curled up in the c
andle down and stepped out, the heavy
nto the pillow that still smelled like him, hot tears soaking into the cotton as the m
butler wheeled a silver cart into the dining
re you eat," the butler said with a polite bow
room, and her stomach cramped violently. She threw off
ng her head to see her tangled hair, swollen eyes, and
turned the dial all the way to cold, gaspin
ck into the bedroom and picked up her phone from the rug. Dozens of not
contacts, and pressed her trembling thu
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