Betrayed Heiress: My Husband's Deadly Mistake

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all silver key

He missed the catch. The key skittered across the

fted to the blood pooling inside the freezer.

vived this, if the baby survived, her place as the queen

ment fluid and predator

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were underwater. I couldn't move. I couldn't feel my legs any

at the crowd, spit flying from hi

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ing completely. He banged his fists against the g

't mean for this. Wake up

placed a hand on his shoulde

ly. "It is over. She is gone. It

d-eyed. "Shut up! T

ted eyebrow. "You gave the order, Aus

d back at me

h him through the glass. I didn't have the strength to speak, b

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ed, leaning closer

g sound. "No one is coming, y

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ard with a deafening boom. Metal twisted like paper, and shrapnel sliced

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the ruined door, his face a

the swirling smoke

on a cane, but his presence fill

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ive. And he looked like the devil hi

he glass wall of my tomb, trapp

spered into th

hythmic tap of my father's cane striking the floor, foll