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her cheek by an inch, the wind of it stirring her hair. The old

rieked. "This is your fault! You drove B

tains at Elliot Blackwell's back. "I wasn't the one who bet the fam

d. "How do you k

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hung in

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e full amount. The trust you've been illega

called 'abandonment clause' is a legal fiction you c

tangle the fraudulent documents you forged, the Blackwells will

, guttural roar that vibrated the

ith greed in her eyes. She looked at Brooke, really l

t a victim. She was

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we lose e

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elpfully. "I already had him draft the trans

from her pocket. She had be

at the paper. "You..

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to the biometric scanner on the tablet. The lawy

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in her pocket. A sin

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