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in the door sent a pathetic fl
ast, empty dining table. My hands were
as h
ped into the penthouse. He brought a chill with him, the scent of expensive
my voice softer than I
is coat, a simple
shoulders, but it was a wall. My hand, re
dropped. Co
back, my finger
e against a heavy crystal glass echoing in t
own, C
just poured over. Not angry. J
ed to
opposite him, my hands twisting in my lap.
ement sharp and efficient. He slid it across the marb
is?" My voi
rce agr
e were commenting on the
s, drowning out the city sounds from fifty floors below. I co
cia's condition has worsened. The d
the air. Felicia Puckett. The saint.
g me?" I managed to re
tience in his gray eyes. "I need a clean slate to be t
alled our marriage and exposing the hollow truth. I
r, we'll remarry," he added, as
years. His face, so handsome it could br
randed a 'homewrecker' in the last moments of her life.
Sterling" and "Calista Johnston" stared up at me, t
cry. To ask him, what a
, unwavering. It dare
menacing tone. "Calista, you know how important this is
It extinguished the las
s thick with his cologne and the col
o protect me. I never imagined his protection m
s. I fought them back, ref
eternity, I heard a voice, calm and de
o think a
te compliance. But he stood up. "I need an answer by t
ught was so absurd it was almost funny.
y glass on the bar with a thud. He walk
sealing me in the silent apar
, fat drops splashing onto the di
up the document. The sharp edg
ous settlement, a golden cage for a
In the blank space at the bottom of th
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