His Unwanted Wife, The Billionaire's Obsession

. She had been dead for three days, and th

en called. He didn't know she was

ce hated most. Blaise Haw

thorne Group logo. The price of burying her dau

Her parents told her to go back and apologize. The funeral home gave

last because going to him meant admitting she had nothing-and beca

s waiting.

d cost her. She only knew it was the one

he hospital pillow flashed through her mind. The cold

the check and put it into

l slung low around his waist. Blaise Hawthorne. His dark hair was still wet, his

ed her gaze to the floor. She had to leave-lea

e said, her voice hoarse, as if s

ike a verdict-on Ja

f ice against glass the only sound in the room. He poured a

skin, as if something had been worn there. She had not noticed when he had taken it-p

d, his voice low and amused.

bit down hard on her lower

lutching the edge of her coat, and walked toward th

e doorknob when his voice ca

rgot so

fused and t

nd forefinger. A silver bracelet, one of

lunged for it, a desperate, clumsy movement. It was the las

it out of her reach

pped the bracelet into the pocket of his jeans.

cket buzzed violently. The screen

and stabbed the decline button, her whole body

nt disappeared, replaced by something deeper and more calcul

uldn't speak. Ellery could only glare at him, th

she collapsed against the cold metal wall. Her le

vaged face. On her neck, fingerprint-s

d a single hot tear tra

e inside, where a delicate, swirling "E" was engraved. The image of a girl in a un

nto Jace Landry's recent financials. And... ever

ing window and looked down at

jolted her awake, clearing a little of the fog in her head. She clutc

e golden cage of the Landry

. The funeral home was waiting.

he machine, her phone vibra

home tomorrow. We need to discu

losing around her heart, squeez

. He was still using their dead daughter to control her-an

he machine whirred, and the new balance flas

and walked aimlessly down

as clear: from the moment she took that check, only reckoning rem

was going to use Blaise Hawthorne to tear Jace apart from the inside o