The Secret Tycoon's Sweet Vengeful Queen

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, his voice filled with a sense of resignation and sorrow. "My

way to retaliate against a cheating husband is to reclaim your own life and make him witness

cided to inform me today?But w

lat against his chest. "Because you won't find a better partner for revenge t

his skin, the hard wall of muscle beneath. "You don't look like

y, I'm going to bed first," I said, and walked

my dried clothes folded on the armchair and a handwritten note und

out of the resort's side exit and spotted the rusted

s. When he saw me approaching, he crushed the stub under his boot heel, walke

smelling faintly of tobacco and pine. Three hours later

ence store awning and called Darcy, my closest friend a

personal days. Can you cover

ense voice came throug

pull another stunt? Say the word and I'll

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passenger seat. Crawford started the engine and merged back onto the interstate, d

, letting the hum of the road drown out the noise in m

as the wrought-iron bac

e general area. But he

ast."Did you follow me before?

out a faded navy baseball cap with a local plu

x pipes on the side. You fell asleep, so I got a head start. My

t him, hal

manicured lawn. As soon as I opened the foyer door, our housekeeper, B

and she reported my every mo

d over Crawford's broad

ion any maintenance scheduled for to

rawford.He had played me. Again.

ine and cut her off

da. Or would you prefer I wait until Dedr

She pursed her lips and stepped aside, though her g

ed open the double doors to the master suite

magazine covers lined the wall, and his custom suits hung in the o

open to let the sunlight in. When I spun around, I nearly col

blocking the room behind him, wrapping

id, his voice dropping to a low gravel as he looked do

windowsill pressed against my spine, then lift

But that doesn't give you the right to lie

pressing lightly over my pulse. "But you didn't say no, did you? You got in my truck. You di

as screaming at me to walk away, but something dark and hungry s

s wrist, my knuckles going

ce trembling with sudden resolve. "

He flipped his wrist, locked his fingers arou

e playing with, Genevieve?" His chest vibrate

y play the decent man now?" I rose on m

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