onth

he Upper East Side, directly across from an elit

ilored khaki trench coat. She stood in the shadow o

ang. A stream of children in pristine, expe

ing with his backpack bouncing against his shoulde

st season's Chanel tweed suit. She laugh

aybach parked at the curb. He walked over and n

. The sound of their perfect, happy family laught

arby smiled at Jessica, praising

lawless performance. She waited for the famili

ing

r stomach. She felt physically sick at the though

scream. She simply turned on her h

the Manhattan penthouse sh

r clicked open. The entryway smelled like expensive, unfamiliar

to the master bedroom and opened the back of the walk-in closet. She pulled o

textbooks, her pre-marriage clot

dn't look at the diamond jewelry Conrad had

r leather tote bag and pulled out a thick documen

placed the Divorce Agreement dead ce

only a single, dim floor lamp burning in the

ed to midnight. The biometric loc

s tie loose. The heavy stench of whiskey

ht. He flinched when he saw Aurora sitting in the shadows. H

snapped, his voice loud and accusatory. "You didn't ev

ention the surgery. She just looked at him

index finger against the cover of t

e squinted at the bold black letters

roughly unbuttoned the top three buttons of his sh

water. "You want my attention so badly you actually paid a lawy

ehind him. Her voice was complet

ammed the glass down, and pushed past her toward the bed

e bedroom and sla