phin

, each drop on the windshield blurring the city lights into

f a childhood fever, made her an easy target, yet it was her salary that sent me to the most elite privat

o fight back. When a girl put gum in my hair, I soaked her mattress with a garden hose and

auditorium. They dragged me onto the stage, holding me down while Isabella brand

cut through thei

school. He snatched the scissors from Isabella's hand and gave a curt nod to his assoc

check for injuries. It was the first time anyone in that world had show

root in my heart. But all I ever saw was the way he looked at Isabel

studies, graduating at the top of my class from a pres

sabella's wedding. The ninth attempt. The music was playing, the guests were seated, but the

pped. His cold, furious eyes scanned the crowd of guests, and then they la

me,"

g me, the housekeeper's daughter, to be his wife. For a wild, foolish moment, the girl who'd watched h

know my first name. And just lik

agnosed with pneumothorax, a collapsed lung, he flew in the best medical team in the country, and they saved her life. He s

gns of his growing affection. I thought tha

h hope died

y when I heard him tal

," Dante said, his voice

was hesitant.

y breath

ce. "A low-cost placeholder. A body in my bed. The momen