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ing mattress. The back of her hand brushed ag
ight of Manhattan poured through the floor-to-ceili
ilent bedroom. It was coming from the narrow gap in th
open. Sitting on top of a stack of notepads was a sleek black smartphone. It was Brook's secondary busine
imple initials: CP. The vibration pattern stuttere
on to mute the buzzing. Brook was likely in the adjacent st
umsily across the smooth glass, swiping the green accept icon. In her fumbling attempt to sile
peaker. Her tone was sharp, impatient, and entirely devoid of her usual sw
d. Her lungs simply st
the distinct whistling of the wind hitting the glass panels of their penthouse terrace. "I had to s
choed through the speaker. "I'm just annoyed. Cannon getting e
y. It was a cold, satisfied sound. "Buying off Clarence's doctors to fake that sterility
ge into darkness. Her fingers curled inward, her nails diggin
elsey asked. "How is
f any human empathy. "I paid the head nurse at the facility to swap out his exp
rushed up her throat. Cold sweat erupted across her s
going to dump the bankrupt princess? I'm t
ectural design patents and transfer them to Tyler Enterpris
of the terrace slid o
hammer. She slammed the phone face-down onto t
to her chin. She squeezed her eyes shut. She forced her chest to rise a
k carpet absorbed the sound of Brook's
o the bed. He stood the
face. Her eyelids twitched with the biological urge to snap open, but s
her cheek, his fingers pushing a strand of blonde
y," he whispered. His voice drip
od cologne filled her nose. Her stomach he heave,
round and walked toward the massive wal
clera burned. The absolute terror in her chest evaporated,
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