Alexandrea's lips. "Marry me? Mr. Griffith,
suit jacket around her as if it were armor. She need
tone dripping with a self-loathing that had been drilled into her fo
e of him once again casting a shadow over
, shaking her head. "And be
ion darkene
light in the darkness of the Terry household. The contract she'd been forced to sign was an iron chain around her neck, and Demario's future was the lock. If she left with this man, if she
"I'm a Terry. I
it sounded pathetic even to her own ears
e in her eyes, the flicker of pain
loser, crowding her space. "Look at me
o tilt her head back to meet his gaze, and under its p
have to go back," she re
She was trapped by something, something she couldn
tone suddenly softened. "Alrig
concession. A wave of relief washed over
o find her clutch purse, h
, Ace's expression shifted. The softness van
h swift, sil
ike to the side of her neck where a nerve cluster lay vulne
sp caught in her throat as the world dissolved in
sily, scooping he
ful in a way it hadn't been while she was awake. A fai
oice a low rumble. "But I can't
gainst his chest and s
ting silently in the hall. They saw their boss holding an unconscious woman, bu
manded. "We're going b
ared at the end of the hall, rushing towards
he shrieked, "What are you doing? Where
if she were nothing more than a piece of furniture, his
e command to Giles over
tt moved to block Ivette's path, c
arried Alexandrea away from the hotel, away from t
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