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two years called m

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tting ahea

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small. Crystal chandeliers. Champagne towers. Women in gowns that cost more tha

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apes, of pretending my heart didn't skip every time I heard his voice on a conference call. Two yea

supposed to

was going t

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Ash

about the dining room dra

ightened.

way he did everything - like

he was

e way he looked at everyone - with cool, distant assessmen

is it,

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ng ca

amed at myself

tell you something. Something I

ssion did

now I'm just the designer. I know we don't run in the same circles. B

enn

id my name st

ly. Not

was alre

the embarrassment

oor drop out

penthouse looks excellent. But that's all it is." His eyes met min

t me like a

ice cracked. "I

smell his cologne - expensive, cold, familiar. "The way you linger after mee

het

dn't b

y you've been living in - it ends tonight. Tomorrow, I'm announcing my e

oria

ed. The daught

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cou

whispered. "I d

traightened his cuff. "

he walk

like

was n

nesses, of showing up early and staying late jus

ne, hands trembli

linking below m

d to di

of my own skin and v

behind me

uc

un a

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nd, my hea

ooked exactl

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ing else wa

an wore his like a joke. Shoulders loose. Mouth curved. Tie already und

who had never once ap

ou standing ther

g en

urned. "Y

walked toward me, slow and unhurried. "My br

furious at myself for

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ght my

Barel

ugh to

propositio

ck. "I'm not in th

dropped. "Because

cket and pulled out a

red a

printed across the top

nsane," I

ted his head. "But

that around

is mouth twitched. "I just didn't know who

so hard I could hear

y penthouse. You play the devoted wife. In exchange, I pay off your mother's m

mach d

about m

oftly. "I know everything about you,

g att

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have wa

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e she

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