It wasn't a room; it was a wing. The ceilings soared. One entire wall was glass, overlooking a manicured garden th
t her sides, afrai
the stone. Alistair Sterling is Izzy's father, she repeated to herself, a desperate mantra. He's
n antique vanity. A tex
will assist you with an
efficient as the man himself. She stared at the signature, a
process it, her
or just called a surprise meeting, but I
che. Abe's fiancée, Sloane, had "accidentally" backed into he
st night. And she certainly didn't know Iz
he garage is full of them. The keys are
alership. A row of gleaming machines sat under spotlights. A Ferrari. A Lamborghini. A classic Porsche. Nausea surged. H
purr, a world away from the rattling cough of her old Ford. She gripped the smooth, cool steering wheel. She hated the easy sed
she thought, a bitter ju
ares. Izzy burst out of the doors, throwing her arms around Chloe in a hug before she could e
r royal cha
their expressions a mixture o
hissed, her
What's the big deal? You are Mrs. Ster
id down the law this morning. My future credit card limit is directly pr
. It was a strategy. Alistair had made C
the sake of future Chanel and Hermès, you need to ab
all their contracts with Sterling Enterprises, forcing them to relocate to another state in disgrace. Her dad had been terrifyingly furious at Izzy, freezing her accounts and forcing her to do a month of hard community service for "endangering an innocent bystander." But the day her punishment ended, he had wired fifty thousand dollars into her
anipulative, and somehow, exactly what she needed. The wei
ugh campus, terrified of scratching
igure stepped out from between two p
heart
eyes fixed on her with a dark, possessive g
ightened on
zy muttered. "W
ar into reverse, but it was too late. He
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