rt with thunder. It

flickered like warning signs. One after another, investors were pulling out.

ars honked, people rushed across sidewalks, neon signs blinked thei

stood in the

The panic in voices that usually trembled in fear of Gr

feared? The great Grey Walton, brought d

at even kings fall but some rise and stand again, even become more powerf

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like this. But her gut told her something wa

hesi

ed the dr

s of them. But one was lab

WALTON.

it up. Her name. Her life. But

open-and her

d court document with her father's name circled in red. Her adoption files. Even e

every

she thoug

e wasn't sup

older pressed to her ch

ess he'd al

ehind her. She didn't t

d soft. "You aren't s

burning "You kept this

folder like a weapon. "Since the beginning? Since th

e. "You were never a piece. Y

ve you cared. You made me fall for you-and al

protect

hat? Th

is silence yelled

age__betrayal. "I thought you

k, matching forward. "I hid those files to

use

ed you." The word

Then I need to know

I was afraid. Too afraid that if you saw the truth, y

speak. The folder fell from her hands

back but he was too quick. He grabbed h

hes away from hers. His br

ice raw, "i need you to t

d down in her chest was too visible.

ofter this time, almost broken,

She wanted to scream, to cry,

she sla

d through the ai

ed to the side

less second, e

he kis

pended on it. Like her heart had chose

gether like fire and thunder, like two people

ng. But inside the office,

mething even more da

o

ying, uncont