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t a ring. Sign, or your family is destroyed. His true
reats. I fled. Taxi. Semi-truck. Blood. The las
ic. Unwanted.
night.
I'm writing
.
skirt for the tenth time. Candles flickered on the nightstand. Champagne chilled in an ice bucket. Manhattan's skyline
exploded. I leaped to my feet, a radiant
tie with a violent tug. The smell of whiskey rolled off him in waves. He reached the co
Two words.
what? Julian, what's wron
the eyes I had fallen in love with three years ago-h
step back, my voic
me." He stepped closer, invading my space. "A nobody designer from Ohio, desperate to claw her way into New
"That's a lie. Evelyn and I just talked. She was kin
His voice dropped to a danger
ill wore my wedding dress. The dress I had spent weeks choosing, dreaming of this
g in the air betwe
rise crossed his
e yourself. You asked them for my hand. You stood at that altar and said vows. You let me believe th
son smiled. It was the col
ked it open. The sound was unnervingly loud. He grabbed my hand-his grip like
father's pension from the auto plant. Your mother's retirement savings." His voice was a venomou
The fight drained out of
cold gray void. He would destroy my family without blink
ttered onto the paper as I scrawled my name. Kianna B
d it. Placed it back in the envelope. Then he pressed a but
door. "Search her luggage. Make sure she takes nothing that belongs to this family." He
icked shut
ed through by strangers while the butler watched with dead eyes. I saw my favorite sketchbook-its leather cover worn from years of use-b
e, sir. Just personal effects." But J
y the wreckage of a life that had ended before it ever began. The candles were dead. The c
Fury. Julian Harrison thought he had broken me. He thought I was ju
a who he was
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