tment, making the dust motes dance in the air. Crockett sat in a ridiculous
htmares. He had played his part, murmuring soothing words, stroking her hair, but his mind was elsewh
vibration from his pho
of the Winters family office. A man who would never, eve
h clenched. He an
panic. "Sir, there have been several... highly unusual, large-scal
own deepened.
h. "In total... just over
anding on Delila's white silk rug and leaving
Had she bought a
" he asked, his vo
ngs,' into the stock market. Small-cap tech stocks, sir. Junk, by all acc
e. He knew they were hosting a privat
re of calculated, public humiliation. She wasn't just spending his mon
his was a declaration of war on his a
tracked inquiries from Phoenix Holdings to Gideon Holt. It appears t
r, unadulterated stupidity of it was breath
pathetic act of a woman scorned, a woman trying to wound him by wasting
should we fr
cold as a shard of ice. "Let her buy. Let's see ju
is fury. It wasn't about the money. Ninety million was a roundi
ary in a gilded cage. A creature that would be helpless wit
orway. She padded towards him, clutching her silk robe. "W
mplicated history, he shrugged her o
was quickly replaced by her signature expression of wounde
bbed his jacket from
said, his voice flat and hard. He didn't
g back to t
he was going to remind her, in no u
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