ass doors of The Plaza. She looked down at the tips
hy socialites in floor-length gowns approached the entrance, f
atched face. She pressed herself closely against the group, slipping through the
dor. She reached the massive, carved wooden doors of t
orchestra played a smooth waltz. Waiters carried towering trays of champagne. The light reflected
crowded room with fra
stopped
estors, stood a man in a custom Tom Ford tuxedo. He was facing aw
wd. She didn't care who she hit. Her
ashed against the marble floor, shattering into hund
edo paused. Slowly
opped working. Hot tears instantly spilled
and the faint, almost invisible old scar just behind his left
oked out. Her voice
e spilled champagne. She reached out her bleeding ha
guard materialized from the shadows. He grabbed Audra b
marble floor. The jagged shards of broken champagn
oling beneath her finger
armth. He looked at her the way one might look at a rotting animal on
id. His voice was deep, smooth, and entir
orie Burke wrapped her slender arm intimately around the man's wa
o is this?" Corie asked, he
t, pulling her closer. The corner of his mou
ped. Ignore her," he stated loudly, ensuri
e. She shook her head frantically, her tears dripping on
ver with three large men in suits. They grabbed A
ruin the evening," Eben comm
n his face, but Eben had already turned away. He was gently tucking a str
ugh the ballroom, down the long corr
reezing asphalt of the da
trickled down her shins. She lay there on the cold pavement, her bod
ey. A black stretch Lincoln limousine rolled silently t
door sw
dra could scream, they grabbed her by
into the dark, cavernous
heavy door slammed shut behind her, ins
thick. It smelled sharply
the leather seat, her heart pound
long legs were crossed casually. In his right hand, h
k of the polite stranger was gone. His eyes
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