No Longer Your Bridge: The Heiress Awakens

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arm a dead weight around my shoulde

ight, after the dinner, he had consumed glass after glass, his ey

, bracing myself aga

gerously. He turned to me, his eyes gl

g the line of my jaw w

," he w

ded like a p

sh in my veins, the cold spread

my voice fracturing. "Look

features. He leaned in close, reeking of

red. "Always you. Since we wer

of my neck, inhaling deeply. "I

tilted o

about me. He ha

agged claw in my chest, tearing open

oved

a

e wall, sliding down until

, Michael,"

the guest room, locking t

re. I needed to know th

house settled into a

et water, my throat par

d voices in

, spilling a sliver of go

shadows, hold

e leather armchair, rubbing his temples. Selena was kneeling

ce was sharp, demanding an audit of his affection. "She

ing a hand through h

looks like

mouth to stifle the scr

Selena

s voice was chillingly devoid of emotion. "I needed the money, Selena. The Hayes fortu

s a plac

corrected. "A very expen

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d, harsh sound that sc

he alliance." He paused. "If it's a girl, I

d. "You're s

"She doesn't know. She'll never know. Liv is to

she fi

"She has no one. Her father is dead. Her mother is terr

he hallway wall, m

oks lik

time he made love to me. Ever

etending

he was fucking

se up, violen

cry. I was

walked silentl

closet and pulle

in the back where I kept the essentials-my father's original w

r. The heavy diamond that I used to thi

illow next to the in

ialed the number I had sav

on the second ring. "It's Olivia. File the pap

s. Hayes? The bac

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ung

alled me a

"Thorne just called the fa

eaving

use. Then, a s

he car is waiting at

e handle of

he library door

na," Michael was

grim, terr

hat," I whispered