ees. Every nerve in her body screamed. She bit down hard on her lower lip, t
fingers around it, the bent prongs and sharp edges of the setting digging into her
er body felt like a dead weight, but she forced her legs to lock, t
her ashen face, the sweat beading on her upper
wrong wi
almost comical. It was the kind of thing you'd
love she once felt was gone. The hurt was gone. Even the hatred
rry about," she said, h
gainst his expensive suit. Her back was rigid, her head held
ng coiled in Clayton's gut. It felt like... losing. He, who never l
eet, cloying poison. "Don't let her upset you, darling. She's just trying to mak
ared her head enough to allow her to stumble into a deserted alleyway between two bui
h shaking hands, she twisted the cap and dry-swallowed three of the powerful
waiting for the medicine to work. The pain was a living thing inside her, clawing and biting. She
ad no
recesses of her memory. A name she hadn'
or Si
chasing after a married billionaire and a life of glamour. The woman who sent a lavi
er. But she knew one thing for certai
ng the last of her pride. Even if it meant facing the woman wh
painkillers were beginning to dull the sharpest edges of the pain, replacin
address she had memorized from a society column ye
ay, Corrie stared out the window at the city blurring past. She was going
winding driveway led to a sprawling stone mansion that looked like something out of a fairyta
ene wealth that stood in stark, cruel
fore the gates for a long moment, taking a deep b
ith a slight accen
, her own name sounding foreign. "
The heavy gates began to swing in
an the last. The front door opened before she reached it
delicate porcelain coffee cup. She was slim, elegant, dressed in cream-colored cashmere. Wh
rprise, a surprise that was quickly r
room and enveloped Corrie in a hug that smelled of expensive perfume and mon
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