nd the Manhattan skyline, plunging

he building management had merci

heating di

the massive, empty

vering violently. She had wrapped Donovan's heavy suit jacket tightly aroun

, distorted shadows across the bare hardwood

the living room, a smal

py candle on the glass coffee tabl

hadows under Abigayle's eyes, highlight

with a cold, hard turkey san

eat, Miss," h

ch cramped painfully, rejecting the idea of

d-like texture, and swallowed it down

te down and pic

n flashed red a

ough the names of the socialite friend

ed the f

imes before a familiar

god, I saw the n

"My dad is in the ICU. The accounts are frozen. I need

went de

to Milan right now. The reception is terribl

ic

ne. She took a breath an

ect

aled a

ight to v

pped her across the face. Without the Pena Group halo,

rated violent

read: NY Presb

swer, her heart dropp

father's emergency bypass surgery requires a deposit. We need one hundred thousand

cracking. "Give me a few days. The

licy, ma'am.

e disco

red thousand dollars. It used to be the price of a

hed into his

debit card and placed it on

his voice thick with tears. "Twenty thousan

stared at

her defenses, sliding

he card, and pressed it firm

cely. "That is your reti

with the back of he

le of personal belongings the r

r clutch and dumped the

s, and a smal

d-encrusted Van Cleef & Arpels bracelet. Her father

ed in the candlelig

at the thought of losing

the cold meta

e night staring at the c

of dawn crept through the

it jacket and placed it

reezing water on her face, and tied her

rn black trenc

amond bracelet dee

avy, aggressive pounding

arshals!

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