Pampered By The Possessive Wall Street Titan

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ing heat. Ansley's fingers gripp

freezing air filled her lungs. It

ashed frantically across the windshield. Beyond the glass, a

ital speedometer glowed r

l lay on the passenger seat. The silk

His face through the flames, screaming her name as he burn

her mother brush Heidi's hair with a tenderness she had never felt herself. At nine, she watched her father lift Heidi onto his shoulders at the Fourth of July parade while Ansley walked behind them, holding her own hand because no one had reached for hers. At

table, at family photos, at the center of every Christmas card. The last thing Ansley saw as the car pulled away was Heidi standing on the front steps, waving goodbye wi

dress. Not a single phone call in ten years. Not a birthday card. Not a Christmas gift. And then, one day, a lawyer's letter demand

e. It was strung across

ed feet remained. H

f the gas pedal. She stom

hrieked against the slick, wet tarmac.

. She counter-steered. H

front bumper hovered ten inches f

e leather seat. Sweat soake

door open. Cold rain instan

et hit the wet pavement. She

uardrails. A razor-thin steel wire stretched taut

ld have sliced through the windshie

ng. In this one, someone had tried to behead her. Two deaths. Two murder attempts. And both of them

g high beams flashed. Two shaft

d closer. It slammed on its br

oved open. A tall figure

. His tie was loosened. His eyes were

His leather shoes splas

p was brutal. It felt like he

urself to get away from me

ly. The same terror she had heard in her past life when he found her trapped behind that locked do

ing to save her in her past life. The only person in two lifetimes who had ever

Called him a monster. Tonight, she did something he h

ream. She stepped forward and wrapp

st of his threat died in his throat. He stared down at the top of

e cracked. "What

st. "I'm sorry," she whispered. Her v

screaming. For the fighting. For the years she had spent pushin

ock crossed his face. His hands, still suspended in the air, slowly-alm

o me," he said hoarsely. "

everything now." She didn't explain what "everything" meant. She couldn't. Not

ne cut through the storm. Ansley knew that sou

er eyes, replaced by something cold and lethal. She grabb

l me," she said. "And I kn