xchange, an investment from me to you. You should even be grateful, because her signatu

ington's lawyer just stood there, in front of him sat the paper

y cracking. "Halo," she snapped. "You don't even know w

her voice softer but firm. "And

as though she h

, pulling Halo along with him as if dismissing the entire conversatio

lawyer he had come with immediately

the suffocating tension in the house. The mansion behind them, once an inescapab

o back in to get my things or

er. As for packing, judging by what you're putting on" he muttered. "I doubt they'd be anything to pack. If someth

ndows shielding the world inside. Talon released her w

arlett stood, silent but visibly distressed. She had spent years seeking their approval, their

t need it

door behind him. The vehicle hummed to life, and within seconds, they we

erything settling in. Halo stared out the window, wa

," Talon observed, his v

ingers curling against the fab

lightly. "That depends," he said. "On whether y

ith time, she would get t

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she had always imagined big wide rooms that seemed to have infinite walls as o

d them approached the judge and shook hands

shuffled papers in the background, their low murm

tared at him too long, basically gawking. She couldn't help it, she wasn't used to seeing lots of men around. Especi

acknowledged the handful of attendees, his attention fixed on his lawyer, and the judge who gulped on sighting

eeted cautiously, and from

e Mr Vikram, and unfortunately I can't

here, a message

all there was a message to be sent, it would have been sent th

insinuate that. I would love to know what you ar

per for a high judge to be this s

n this Remington,

ng on her tousled hair for a moment. She c

s widened. Talon Ashwood was here to get married, and to this woman perched at his side, even at the mention of her bein

and he retracted his fingers from her hair and held the small of her back instead. The lawyer hadn't h

e is or who she was doesn't matter. Who she will