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se to it. Some came to bid on jewelry and art. Others paid the price

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nore

he room in her heels, and flipped

you doing?

dealing with," she said. "Recyclable, hazardo

ked open before I found mysel

ves who'd been trailing him all evening. Helena sat closest to him, dress

and the cedar pheromones rolling off him ha

ard eve

been worried the sou

ook and turned a

I asked Shana. "Can we get

lth you described earlier. Turns out it's not that the merch

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at me, grinning. "You just got

rting, but very o

our box. Shana threw her arm across the opening, and out of the s

iking, smiling - nothing about her looked li

old wolf blood, and

ed to lift a

rfectly polite. "You weren't invited, so stay on yo

lid past her an

. Come

ew that tone - the same quie

ell in line. I didn't want one argument to wreck what we had

w, that was exa

for so long that he genuinely

ting my eyes flick to Helena beside him. "You've already got company for the

face pale

od," she said softly. "Jasper only

he bought, sitting next to him, bidding on his card. Just an ordinary b

ression dark

o say all of t

sound ugly, it's usually because the p

anking Alpha's pressure bled through the partition, a

won't come over

rning before he actu

he dropped dead from the strain right in front of

etely

sensed the mood turning and

earlier. You and Jasper are about to hold your

not Mrs

flat, all traces

Xesha Foxx. And s

t it carried far enough to

nted to argue, until his eyes caught the s

rity firms in the world - the kind that only worked f

ont of him, who looked dressed for a fashion party, migh

oyalty in this crowd had a price tag, and none of them were willing

rom her seat,

e dropping to just the right pitch. "This is my fault. I shouldn't have a

retreat a

market, Helena's performance tonight wou

d braced against the pa

from

en his cuff. I knew that tiny gesture too well - it meant he thought I wouldn't actu

na leave first and congratulate

n't walk

of the edge right in front of him, and slid

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gh from the other side, bare

and picked up th

ughly refreshed, like she'd just come out

ught you'd go

t page. "Do I look like someone who

not r

m around my shoulders, and p

eep a walking red f

to look

ly terrible at c

know three divorce lawyers, two bonding-rite priests, and one

two numbers. Hold t

ly settled. Helena's muffled crying

Xesha are fighting. I should go explain to he

ve

private auction on his arm - working very hard

in New York corporate circles had appare

Jasper sa

's lineup, but Helena kept up her intermittent sniffling. Ten minutes

I heard her perfectly

private room is disrupting the auction. Could you and your guests please keep th

ext door,

ound a safer target for

she said, clearly displeased. "Why is t

er's side jumpe

themselves to Mr. Dawn. Tell them the room fee's on him tonight

row

the people who actually ran this city, and

e having more and more tro

still had enough sense left to keep things from escalati

way to be irrit

thout fail. We liked a modern painting - he tripled the estimate. Shana

pped away to Jasper in

age fr

e you like? I'll

pieces now hilariously overpriced thank

t tonight is anythin

came almos

bidding o

ancial press might be overra

e-down on the table an

h century - clean lines, cool color, exactly Ale's taste. I rai

e, Jaspe

iting him on purpose all night. Or mayb

n, I got the brace

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ht I'd ke

ped

awn. Let me actually buy something I w

rec

dn't

of him dropping several million dollars tonight on things I'd deliberately bai

anything. But it