Fall From Grace, Rise To Reign

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ment to her boyfriend Jeremy White-only to overhear him

six years of chasing the housekeeper's son, she had never claimed

loyalty meant nothing mor

crooked, bitter smile t

then she would play

she buried every last fee

d, and inside the car, sha

oonlight spilled through drift

drew out a sleek card, and slid it into

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r to step out, the man's hand

her shoulder, one brow ar

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tipped his chin up again

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hout another glance, her scarlet velvet

his gaze tangled with em

noticed her getting into your car. I

bent forward

s away, his features settlin

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d on reflex, his eyes widening the next

d as he struck a matc

st her

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who steered the nation's economy,

tion, even the world's finest e

te, that woman had brought

rtbeat of his focus, he would ne

n whispered, disbelief thr

him, exhaling a thin ribbon of smoke as h

he said quietly, the order