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gs expanding violentl

physical needles piercing her retinas. She squeezed her eye

fr

r arm. It was hooked up to three different IV tu

she had gotten from a coffee spill three years ago. She turned her hand over. The palms were

re not h

suddenly spiked, the slow beeps t

de the door. High heels clicki

She wore a pristine Chanel tweed suit, her hair per

a!" the wo

the bed, grabbing April's unfam

essing April's hand to her wet chee

pull her hand back, a spike of pure panic hitting her

spy exhale came out. She stared at

hite coats flooded int

he lead neurologist said, gently guid

licking a small penlight. He sh

the doctor asked. "Do you know your

Blanc

lent, tearing pain ripped through her skull. It fe

o her crashed into her cons

ameras. The taste of expensive champagne in a crowded Hamptons clu

nchard. The most notorious,

her hands flying to her head

Push two milligrams of

gasping for air against the pillows

the ceiling, her chest r

know who she was-the betrayed financial analyst or the reckless billionaire heiress. The sheer impossibility of it all threatened to drag her back into unconsciousness. But then, a cold, hard anchor dropped in h

of physics and nature, but she knew it was true. April Gamb

of Altagracia Blanchard, who had crash

nurse and rushed back to the bed. "W

oman. This was Eleano

er past life were still burning a hole in her che

reath and forced her

she r

uried her face in the crook of A

es drifted past the woman to the large, full-length

k at her wa

rp cheekbones and piercing, exotic eyes. It was a fa

rs of her mouth tipped upward into a smile that didn'

d in her mouth. You took everything from me. No

or announced, relief evident in his vo

tanding silently by the door. "Alistair. Call my father-in-la

ws. She closed her eyes, hiding the

he was