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alked toward the presidential suite, my heart thumping a giddy rhythm in my chest.

gh, tinkling sound I

My ste

hat was she doing here? She was suppose

g,* I told myself. *Finalizing some detail.

left. Then Hugh's voice, thick and slurred, drifte

Tomorrow, after that idiot Darcie signs the pr

ice. For a second, I couldn't breathe, c

ousy. "I still don't know what you see in her. She's got n

he pain was grounding. It cut through the fog of shock, crystallizing it into something cold and hard. Insulting me was one thi

-destructive instinct took over. I sank to my knees, pressing

was on the sofa, tangled with Floy, who was wearing nothing but a scra

I need the Mayo family's backing, not Darcie. As soon as I sec

"What about that pearl necklace? The one she's so

hint of hesitation in his voice.

losing protectively over the pearls. Na

t my demise. They laughed about my love for him, mocked my dreams o

fying, absolute calm. I felt my soul detach from my body, watching the scene as if it were a movie. Every sweet word he'd ev

ntly, I rose

r the morning's contract signings. On top of a neat stack o

of the cold, dead light of the hallway. A frozen sea