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Runaway Lover: Escaping The Ruthless Billionaire

Chapter 5 

Word Count: 900    |    Released on: Today at 14:58

ate. Massive, century-old oak trees lined the path, their thick bra

scale of the mansion crushed whatever breath she had left. The towering Corinthian columns seemed to look down

ffed heels hit the gravel driveway, the loud crunching sound pai

e guided her through the towering, custom-carv

g. Caroline looked up, and the blinding refraction of light stun

of leather dress shoes echoed f

ess French into a phone. He was issuing a rut

of his voice sent a violent s

eyes tracked the sound to

his broad shoulders perfectly. One hand was casually tucked into hi

gaze collid

king. The blood in he

he recognized her face, a dark, vio

k over. She spun around on her heel, despe

sly stepped in front of the exit, b

the final steps, his shoes hitting

s eyes slowly dragging over her cheap blazer.

"Sir, this is the young woman Madam Ma

ped. "My grandmother requested her?" His vo

, the little cleaner has upgraded to inheritance f

ine stumble back. Her shoulder blades hit the

g to cower. "I didn't know this was yo

trembling hands. Then, he sl

k, exposing the angry, red ring of teeth marks on the flesh

saw exactly what she had done to him.

shame and terror churned in her stomach.

absolute zero. "The Ross family does

. "Sir, this is a direct order from Madam Matil

alized this street rat had somehow bypas

ine's chin. His fingers dug painfully int

my house," he hissed, "I w

he glared right back into his furious eyes.

sive tension. The maids standing in the hallway k

oom swung open. The dull, rhythmic thud of a wheel

oed through the foyer. "Gray

hung in the air li

to something far more complex than mere revulsion-a fleeting, raw shock that was instantly buried under a glacie

violently with the memory of his weight, his scent, the taste of his blood. A wave of nausea was

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Runaway Lover: Escaping The Ruthless Billionaire
Runaway Lover: Escaping The Ruthless Billionaire
“For fifteen years, I thought my mother had died in a tragic fire. Then the wealthy Ross family's butler knocked on my door, revealing she was alive-locked away in the psychiatric annex of their massive estate. I rushed into the lion's den to save her, only to run straight into Graydon Ross, the ruthless billionaire CEO. He looked at my cheap clothes with pure disgust, convinced I was a bottom-feeding scammer trying to extort his family. "Throw this bitch out into the snow." He ordered his armed guards to drag me away, completely cutting off my only chance to see my mentally broken mother. But as he violently grabbed my collar to throw me out, I saw a custom eagle-head cufflink hanging from his coat pocket. My blood turned to ice, and a wave of paralyzing terror crashed over me. Eight months ago, I accidentally slept with a masked stranger in a pitch-black hotel room and fled before dawn. That cufflink belonged to him. The man who took my virginity-the Wall Street tyrant I had been hiding from-was Graydon Ross. If he ever found out I was that woman, he would literally destroy my life. But to save my mother, I couldn't be thrown out. When his grandmother suddenly appeared, I dropped to the floor, exposed the dark bruises Graydon had just left on my wrists, and sobbed. I framed the billionaire for assault to secure my place in the mansion, forcing myself to live right next door to the monster whose bed I had fled.”