Married To My Enemy's Spy

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Save the board.

of desperation. Across the walnut table sat the devil himself. Luca Veridian did not look like a man about to en

aped against her raw nerves like sandpaper on silk. "Each passing moment, your stoc

te-gray gaze of her adversary. "You'd like t

He straightened his cufflink, a black obsidian stone set in white gold. "A merger.

destroy my mother, she thought, feelin

y, as the Veridian lawyers took away everything she owned. And now, twenty years later, the Hales were the ones teetering on the edge, and the Ve

ng space. We share a public face. We're in t

ike he used it to cut. She hated the way he filled the room, the way it felt like it shrunk around him. She hated everything abo

ropping the document in front of him. "I've sol

t, his eyes perusing her signature with a look that gave her chills. For a brief moment,

ather folder. "A car will be waiting for you at your penthouse by

ck. "And Aria? Don't bother bringing your knives, those little

breath she knew she had been holding. Her hands shook. S

into your house. I'm moving into your vault. I'm going to find out what your family d

era lens was hidden ins

he Hale boardroom was displayed on the screen. He watched as Aria st

ened another file, another folde

ry transaction, every account. If she's the one writing the checks

from an unknown number: Is t

creen. She was fragile and fierce,

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