ering rainbows across the white tablecloth. Dennie placed a cup of

his eggs with surgical precision. The suspicion from

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h with a linen napkin

lder across the t

top made her heart hammer against her r

of breath. She put a han

paper. "The board is stable. The merger in Singapore requires a diff

omorrow was ironclad, a dead man's switch of its own negotiated by her former lawyers. This new document

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e said. "And you can keep the house f

million. That was ten million more than she needed to disappear. It wasn't the full settlement she was owed, bu

, making her voice sound

She signed it. She si

t her hand, then at her fac

Holmes," she sai

t. "Processing will take a week.

followed. The heavy f

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up a piece of bacon and ate

f plans, Sarah. The Obsidian Loung

e clothes he bought her. Just the essen

, Dennie W

was little more than silk held together by gravity. It exposed her back, her arms, her legs. Sh

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bass and expensive perfume. It was

. Her jaw dropped when she saw Denni

ife," Dennie

ennie's chest. They ordered a bottle of Kr

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lion," Dennie

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ed in o

. Her back mu

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