Runaway Lover: Escaping The Ruthless Billionaire

Chapter 6

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ethical abyss it implied was momentarily overshadowed by a more pressing reality: survival in this lion's den came first. Answers about her mother-and thi

sat in a custom wheelchair. Her silver hair was pinned up f

Chanel haute couture jacket. She was staring a

sive emerald ring. She gestured for Caroline t

forced herself to walk forward. She gen

mplicated guilt crossed the old woman's eyes.

announced, her tone dripping with condescension. She waved a manicured hand in f

her posture straight. "It's bleach and street snow. Not every

Graydon, pouting her lips. "Graydon, are y

llar is still a stray," he said coldly, not even looking at Caroline. His words deliberately dismissed Matilda's shocking d

e gut. Her fingernails dug into her palms

the floor. The loud crack silenced the room.

ewelry box on her lap. She pulled out a heavy, anti

jealous rage. "That was Grandfather's! It's a fa

lly pushed the girl back onto the cushions. Tins

roline's attempt to pull away, the old woman

est. Wearing it was the price of Matilda's temporary protection and her only ticket to stay and find her mother. Refusing it me

way to his mouth. His sharp eyes locked onto the ruby

owering frame blocked the light from th

quite impressive," he murmu

. "It's called survival.

wly dragged down h

to the brutal grip he had used to wrench her away in the car garage hours earlier. For a split second, the sheer, unadulterated terror flashing deep in her eyes combined with this tangible evidence of their violent encounte

proof he could use against her. Worse, his intense scrutiny felt like it was seeing through her skin, perilously close

don's eyes narrow further. He took a step c

d a silver tea cart into the room.

rcelain cup filled with boiling hot Earl Grey tea. She took

red hands violently jerking the porcelain cup, sending the sca

olently twisted her torso to the left, do

directly onto Graydon's expensive l

ce fell ov

empty teacup slipped from her tremb

ants. His jaw locked. The temperatu

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Runaway Lover: Escaping The Ruthless Billionaire

Clara Winter Romance

“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.”