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in pen hovered over t
separated Cordelia Hamilton f
iliar. A phantom pain, sharp and cold, shot through her chest, a memory of steel sliding between h
before she could stop it, that tore throu
sive black ink overturned, bleeding across the crisp white paper. It spread lik
ia Ham
t remember, muttered under his breath. He looked at her with pure
a physical force, cold and heavy. It landed
stop the
ngry. It was nothing. A flat, dead thi
hought this was
room ten minutes ago. A woman who would burn down her own l
k. The chilling smile of her stepsister, Annalise. The loss. Oh, God, the loss of her son, Case. T
e, making a scene, to force Chandler into paying Chace's $300 mil
't breaking. I
egs trembling. The long mahogany table felt like a canyon between them. She started to
fted, ready to
sive wave of his hand stopped the other man. He wanted to see t
s eyes fixed on the ink-stained document. She could smell the f
r voice cracking. "Don't do t
y, but a weary, cynical amusement-crossed his face.
Cordelia," he said, his voice
v
e her soul used to be. No. Not ag
oat. She reached past him, her hand shaking, and snatche
ut, before Chandler could m
ag
ag
in the quiet room. White scraps fluttered to
s jaw was o
dilating in shock. This was new. Thi
hreat, a negotiation tactic. She had to do something the old
d to s
ved. She lunged forward, her fingers tan
sk of disbelief. She rose on her toes, clum
and sorrow, of chapped lips and the desperate, trembling force of a woman who had come back from the dead. It was no
ud of her heart against his chest. He c
creamed one wo
nt through him. He s
ug. She nearly fell, catching herself on the edge of the desk. Th
at for a terrifying second, it hadn't felt like a performance. The despair was too raw, the terror in her heartbeat too real. This must be her new masterpiece, he thought, a thr
put the world back in its place. His composure
to the stunned lawyer, not loo
er his papers, stuffing them into his br
two of them alone in the wreckage. The air was
out a single backward glance. Hi
you're playing, it won't work. I'll give you one we
. A sob. A threat. T
that was more unsettling than any outburs
he scattered pieces of her broken marri
we
to undo a lifet
And her new life, a life of venge

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