The Billionaire Veiled by Fate

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deeper this time

gned my name over the ghost of everything I had tried to rebuild. Wh

en the door

ume bloomed through the clinical air.

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n't defend

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sparkled with

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pped toward her. "

convincingly, lethal. "

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the door, even as my heart burned

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