Toxic Love: Falling For My Cruel Lover
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t! I'm
hat's this w
Yates! You
he daughter of a murderer. See
e girl sobbed from the depths of her being, t
content with the expe
striking, with sharp and pronounced featur
girl's footsteps behind him, his lip
rynn Gibson straightened up as much as she
, and traced his finger across her swollen lips,
ed, and he swal
r, yet it did nothing to dampen his pleasu
lled with shame, shut her eyes a
near. "Sir, Miss
nward, and when he lifted it, al
d and cleaned it wi
aside, her face a mi
a card from his wallet and handed it t
tled through
s she silently accepted th
e from his bodyguard. His tone softene
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her job, and after finishing her work,
e caught the sound of her mot
only one person who could b
Kelley Rayne, her older half-s
with a smile. "Br
rowned. "Kelley's now a celebrity. It's not easy
r, "Mom, it's fine. Maybe Br
? Who is she trying to im
for her older daughter, often visited
thodically peeled an apple. "I've
"I play your song 'Wander' every day. Everyone in the media says
re in the music industry, but she left the sce
d, remarried, and
eeling the appl
happy, Mom." Kelley
a that you're going to the Yates G
sm. "Being invited by the Yates Group
e you look stunning. If you
er daughter. "Brynn, give your
, a mix of disbelief and d
. "Mom, I'm just a student. It'
ses. Get the
ation, saying, "Mom, it's okay.
re my daughter! You
to her sister, looking
"Brynn! Didn't you he
re in the hospital, Dad's in jail, and our ho
Why are you brin
'm funding my studies? Do you know where I sleep? Do you k
ng to hear it. "Enough! All I want to know i
as she looked at her mother, s
ly dawned
all this time,
d her eyes.
d always known the only reason she was in this upscale private ward
pain snapped her back to reality. She looked
you're i
her, but Brynn's co
ard, Jayne's angry
r her? I could have been a legend in the music industry! It's all because of her and
illed with cri
a weary Brynn felt her phone vibrate. Its dis
as not her usual phone, and answered. The vo
to my
ead before she
sn't feeling up to it toda
quest would only lead
st her 120 dollars, erasing the ear
x, hardly the place one would expect the af
a potted plant beside the
the sofa, a lit cigarette dangling from h
ake a shower,"
e gestured with hi
seemed slightly different
ed, then move
with her until
sofa, his dark gaze inten
uddenly, Lawrence drew close, biting her earlobe. In th