ent shivers down most spines in the city, a reclusive billionaire whispered to keep a "collection" at his estate, The Sanctuary, people

me, his eyes were fixed on the stock

, Ava," he said

you don't, the funding f

e den of a rumored monster to save his precious compa

Chloe Vance, his assistant then too, had gone in my place, she' d returned, pregnant with Sterling' s child, they said, and then she' d killed hers

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ard, her gasp was loud in

That man... they s

in the room, as tangible as the expensive art on our walls. Chloe Vance, now his executive as

l pointed to it, he thought I was a threat, a reminder. Going to Sterling was a risk, a huge one, but staying here, with him, with her... that was a gu

louder this time, loo

side, her hand pos

do, Ethan, I w

widened in m

, her voice dripping

to protect everything we've all worked for, if it would help, I

r expression a perfect

own small bump, a delib

dropping to a conspiratorial whisper,

onfirmation of what I already suspected, she was pregnant

ned to me, his fa

you'll do what's necessary, and you'll keep your mouth shut, my

mpathy, no concern for me or our