inalize his victory, the hea
the room. She was crying hysterically, her mak
e President standing over him with a face like thunder. Her
iled, burying her face in her han
ol, he tried to crawl toward her to protect her. The agent behind
ked down at Tricia. The corners of Hester's
ail, but it carried a
said you were his true love. He said h
to seducing the President's son and destroying a vital political
es. She knew instantly that if she claimed Domenic, Chr
instinct
nting a shaking finger at Domenic. "I only see him as a friend! He's the on
He stared at the woman he had just ruined his
s voice breaking. "What are you
shrieked, playing the vi
he room. Even Christian looked
ed inwardly
Tricia. "If he forced you, then why were you
darted wildly around the room, looking for an escape.
ed, her voice reaching a hysterical pitch,
eadfirst toward the massive, solid marbl
ne in the room froze, shocked by the sudden
new Tricia was a coward. She knew Tricia would s
lunged
amed, reaching her hands out a
ster predicted, Tricia's feet stutter
second, Hester's hands hit
shoved her forward with a vicio
ed Tricia's atte
H
solid marble was sickeningly loud. There w
dropped to the floor like a sack of wet cement. She lay completely motionles
brutality of what she had just done. But as she looked at Tricia's face-the face of the woman who had laughed over her broken body in her past life-the nausea ev
paralyzed for
rl. "Doctor! Get the doctor!" Hester cried out, her hands hoverin
agent holding him down, but a swift punch to
garbage out of my quarters," he barked at the agents.
the bleeding girl. "Hester, stop. Don't touc
Elba's shoulder, letting h
ace, they would have seen her blue eye
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