The Billionaire's Greatest Loss: Ex Wife Please Come Back
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gainst the glass like the knives my grandmother curr
each syllable precise as a dagger. "You let that little
ique clock ticked
at saw every weakness. "Elena Davids found a loopho
uvered by some ambulance-chasing lawyer." Her cane tapped agai
nther she'd had stuffed over the fireplace. "Especially
the mantel, his oil-painted eyes forever frozen mid-
ckles. "Serena's compan
was drier than the martini in he
ds tore out of me befo
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t the patents. Not the shares. Not even the air in her lungs after what she
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fully useless, looked up
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looking helpless.
ledger." Ele
ll. Even the rain
true, it contained every Blackwood sin for three generations.
sharply. "You can
sbands and a son who underestimated what I could do." She t
s turne
beside men who should've been mine. Investors, innov
sketching circuit diagrams on my chest. "Someday," she'd
thinking it co
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e decanter. "Giv
her whisper like a noose tightening. "Or I'll remind New
ng yielded two things, one was a photo of Serena on our wedding day, back
th like they m
oday. I declined it, pulling up Serena's contac
ucci dress probably costing more than an average man's ann
ok up. "I'm in the mo
on the coffee tabl
leaving her office. Serena at some u
an C
er who'd refused Blackwood's offer
Grandmother was right. That bitch
ar you call her grandmother. She told
who wants to remain young. I have a f
-laughter, her eyes bright, and alive in ways I hadn't
I ordered
ed. "You're no
tered against the wall behind her
my sister
ouse, the one I owned, but which Serena had tak
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et door stood ajar. Inside, ssa
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e she'd hidden the proof