metal pulled her memory back to the rainy night at JFK Airport

into her IV tube, and stepped barefoot onto the cold floor tiles. Walking to th

ow rumble of two bodyguards talking. Flora moved silently to the

on the helipad earlier? Even the Coast G

u recognize the Kirkland conglomerate emblem? The boss of

t really was Esteban. Despite three years of silence, the billionaire

fe, and left the night another woman's name lit up his pho

ts list. Her thumb hovered over the number that had been blacklisted for three

to Europe the first morning after. To bury the scandal, he married Flora six months later-because she had

with an incoming FaceTime call fro

pped accept. Chloe's anxious face fi

Jensen yacht capsized off

eyes with a cold smile. "But I need

s tower, I'm in," Chloe said through gritted teeth. As Manhatt

f our marital assets, along with my resignation lett

end, her coffee mug sli

oy? He'll never sign it. He treat

m, Chloe. I've th

five-million-dollar check on the nightstand. They quickly went over the legal clauses, and Flora instru

f the bed and tapped her Apple Watch, con

s internal system. She typed in an encrypted command, pulled three years of trust fund transfer

hundred percent, the electroni

sh, dropping back onto the pillows and c

ked in and placed several lux

discharged tomorrow morning to attend Old Mrs.

of acknowledgment, keeping h

the top bag. Inside lay a heavy pigeon-blood ruby necklace-Eloy's st

in his closet months ago-one she

tood up and dropped the box straight in

pers and climbed into the back of the town car

expressway. Flora pulled out her phone, snapped a casual photo of the Long Islan

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