e office, watching the storm lash against the glass. The lights of Los
h Alaina had ended
ll holding
ugh her tablet. She had followed him back from Eclipse, claiming she wanted late-n
g," she said wit
trateg
a look that was far too perceptive for someone her age. "You'
tightened. "S
y spoke to her before tonight." Jasmine's sm
wenty-two, a decade younger than him, but she had inherited the Rho
said finally, as if th
, until tonight." Jasmine studied him with open cur
did h
a Spencer at a family function three years ago. She had been nineteen then, a sophomore a
ian had
. The way she flinched when Cori spoke to her. The way she held
elligence that flashed in her eyes when she thought no o
n watching
g herself on people who do
rick Harmon's ward from under his nose will humiliate him in front of
old. "I didn't say I
roken merger. A stolen patent. A divorce that had ended in scandal and litigation. Th
he business world. This engagement to Ashley Vance-the daughter of a medi
Alai
he game. She was the queen Der
d, moving to his desk. "She'll be
r everything tonight?" She let out a low whistle. "M
plete with academic records, research publications, and photographs. He'd had it compiled two years ago. He updated
her expression turning serious. "Julian. I'm going
ooke
nst Derrick?" she asked qui
ilent for a
and discarded when they were no longer useful. His father, Julian Rhodes III, had taught him that
ted to question that d
e one or the other
her head with a soft laugh. "You know, for a geniu
s phone buzzed. A new email
pene
*Footage from Harmon
video file. Jul
ick's foyer, soaked to the bone, clutching a paper bag. Ashley Vance descending the stai
atched i
e server, filed it under a folder labeled
that?" Jas
uran
rld, information was the most valuable currency o
out there, Alaina Spencer was sitting in her small apartment, wearing his jack
e was escaping
walking straight into
Vance's secrets were numerous, and Julian had documentation on every single one. The Harmon empire would
aked glass, Julian felt something unexpected. Somet
il
who claimed to care about her. And now, she was about to trust a
* he told himself.
hought it, he kn
t the path he was setting her on would put her directly in t
discovered the full extent of his m
People had hated Julian Rhodes IV before
Alaina's hatred felt like
e and typed a message
everything. Where she goes. Who she talks to. If she so mu
ials. I want to know who she owes money to. Everyone she
instantly. **Un
s phone and turned
her to him for the next five years. In seventy-two hours, the engagement between Derrick Harmon and Ashley Vance would be i
Al
would
he knew i
he wanted
years. He could wa
ot fo
raged on, and Julia
as finally

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