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few faded shirts into my canvas backpack, making sure my silver needles

's Beta secretary rapped on the do

to Miss Danae's banquet tomorrow night," the secretary said coldly. "If

c allowance couldn't even buy a

backpack over my shoulder and walking

per, Jerilynn Lara-a loyal former servant who had protected me sinc

as been prepared as you instructed," Je

at the new contact saved as "Kingsley." Af

, gravelly voice came through over the h

y tone strictly business. "We need to get our stori

the other end, followed by a qui

road and stopped outside the grand iron gates of the manor. Kingsley st

ed limestone villa, a flicker of sharp cur

could ask. "Don't get the wrong idea. This place belongs to a wealthy f

casting a shadow over my head as his crisp scent of

pretty generou

ing a broke rideshare driver wouldn't know the rea

loor. "That's your room. We share the kitchen and living room, but the

and leaned back lazily, crossing his long legs with t

handwritten sheet of paper over the glass table. "Tomorrow night, my adoptive family i

his gaze lingering on the wo

humiliate yo

ing a sip of water from a crystal glass. "So you'll have to put

s onto mine, his voice droppin

table, closing the distance between us until h

is gaze dropping to my li

kling with heat as I jerked back against my ch

dangerous smirk curving his mouth. "Ha

e my flustered pulse. "Then it's settled! I'm going upst

the grand staircase

bedroom door shut on the second floor, I leaned against the wood and pressed a hand to

laptop awake. An encrypted email from t

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