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plush waiting area
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desk. She picked up a pen and began fillin
ly still. He loo
bright blue butterfly fluttered thr
pped and danced, flying down the
neakers made no sound on the marble
with long, measured strides. The school principa
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and bright blue eyes was staring u
m his face. "Oh my god. I am so sorry, Mr.
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hing deep inside his chest fluttered. A strange,
tightly around Butler's thigh and buried his face
ntire body
electricity shot straight through his heart.
is hand twitched, wanting to reach
k, Eleonora signed the la
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fingers. It hit the marbl
cold. Panic se
" she
licked frantically against the stone.
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the scene in the mi
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he memory of the hospital bed, the fire, the bodygua
nal terror
n't care about her heels. She didn
y from Butler with brutal force. She pulled Noah into her chest, wrapp
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sto
eyes looked completely black. The
htmares every night for five years. The face
no sound came out. Hi
out. The name scraped
raight. She looked at him. H
arrogant French. Sir, y
, lifting Noah in
k vanished, replaced by
ve hand clamped down on her
Eleonora's ar
echoed off the walls. His eyes were blood
the bodyguards sto
the fear inside her burned away, leaving
free. Instead, she leaned in, her voic
will be on the cover of Forbes, right after
her tone stunned him for a fraction of a se
led her arm away. She
dents poured out of the cl
is. She shoved a heavy decorative planter into their path, creating a momentary obstacle, and slipped into th
tely still in the m
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palm. His nerve endings were tingling; he could st
was beating so hard it felt like it
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