"Ellie" Vance stared at it. "The Annual Foundation Gala,"
. Ellie' s a
now. It had been her companion for month
arp, a shard of g
e was handsome, ambitious, from a new-money family eager to merge with the Vance old-money prestige.
his voice smooth, cutting
ming smile on his face. He wasn't marrying E
a child, always in Ellie's shadow. Vicky, now
e sweet, announced her major breakthrough
e thin against the sudden sho
r of something unreadable in his
had practically raised, stepped f
es weeks ago. You must be confu
ad been juggling her care,
m Vicky, from Leo... it was too much. She remem
e collapse, emotional and physical. Weeks
ne hastened by Vicky' s calculated cruelty, whisper
aivety was gone, burned away.
nvitation. Ethan an
fe before, her devotion. He was "reborn" too, in t
be celebrated for lies. He' d probably
as w
ances, building anticipation for the Gala. There was a smalle
there. Vicky
uld be t
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