the Lincoln Navigator parke
ingers were numb as she applied the third l
to her nose. She shoved the heavy,
hotel room was gone. The ugly,
abric scratched her skin, but it was necessary to hide the dark,
r door open and stepp
From the corner of her eye, she saw a
loudly. "She looks like a moldy nun.
bounce off her armor. She walked into the gran
her. He didn't say hello. He grabbed he
her ear. "If you ruin this trust fund merger with
slowly, pulli
needed to know if he had the nerve to bring C
he ballroom died. The live orch
chairman, was practically sprinting toward the
across the marble floor. Each step
the Red Sea. They pressed themselves again
microphone, his ha
welcome the true head of the Garrison family, ret
ple gasped. Cedrick was the exiled billionaire, the ruth
hed her ugly glasses up the bridge of h
e man surrounded by bodyguards,
t her ribs so hard she t
cold, dead eyes. The terrifyi
room. The man she had left a thou
o expand. She took a frantic step backward, t
he edge of a soci
e woman shrieked, shoving
r hip crashed into the corner
g against the marble floor. The sharp sound ec
stopped
er. His cold, predatory gaze loc
t. She let her messy hair fall forward, praying
outfit. A flicker of deep disgust crossed
the open ballroom doors
ried a
flared. His entir
ic insomnia for a fleeting second. It was an anomaly that irritated his hyper-vigilant instinc
table. He pivoted on his heel and wa
a's fingers dug into the fabric of
feet away from her. His massiv
. "Cedrick, please excuse the mess. T
darkened at t
wly dragged from her fake freckles
yers of concealer were caked unevenly, a desp
ckle that made the hair on the
his lips inche
with lethal intent. "The perfume you chose smells
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