e gap in the heavy velvet curtains
ed bed. Her hand reached out instinctively, but t
open. She sat up. Sh
overed the cut on her calf. Confusion washed over h
efore Brenda, the head maid, wh
g her eyes respectfully lowered. "Mr. Mitchell lef
into a hard knot. She let
thought that he had carried her to bed out of kind
nightstand to order coffee from
with dozens of p
rried Out of 1OAK in Tears! Tr
throwing her over his shoulder filled the screen. Her dress was hi
y hissed, throwing the
She grabbed her iPad, opened Net-a-Porter, an
cked 'P
ge popped up: Tra
her wallet and entered the deta
lin
ied he
lin
forehead. She grabbed her phone an
y accounts?" Finley dema
. Benton issued a direct order this morning. All your liqu
blood drained from her face.
off the covers, marched into the walk-in closet, and pull
screen. A message from an encrypted number she had memorized months ago, when she first started following the market on her own, teaching hers
olding company for six months, using a shell company and an offshore broker she'd found through Tinsley's shady cousin. It was her secret war chest-or it wou
hen she deleted the thread, locked the p
tins clicked furiously across the marble lobby of
up, her eyes wide. "Mis
k so venomous the wom
private executive elevator, and hit the button for the 68th flo
rs ding
he CEO's office. "Mrs. Mitchell, he is in a highly confiden
She grabbed the heavy walnut handles o
dark circles bruising the skin beneath them. He looked exhausted. On t
a button on his console. "We will reconvene in
the desk, slamming both han
she snarled, her voi
ngers, his expression infuriatingly calm. "It is a conseque
er? You spent your wedding night at a hospital with y
ast a shadow over her, forcing her t
twenty-five," Haiden said, his voice dangerously low. "Yo
hest heaving. "I'll go to the press! I'll tell
me caging her in completely. He leaned in close, his voice dropping to a low, dangerous warning that lef
st and yanked it away.
scattered across the page would have made most people's eyes glaze over. Finley scanned them in half a second. Her secret training kicked in: non-disclosure agreement, ass
always did. "I can't understand any of this," she mutte
aperweight from the edge of the
tered into a doz
hit the intercom button. "Security.
haking finger at him. "I'm going to rip you
d out of the office, her heels
/1/114938/coverbig.jpg?v=8685c65f2ab66d857ce023eeedace5f9&imageMogr2/format/webp)