Taste of Revenge

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into the hall. Nathan clenched his

Chen, the idiot who owed his father money,

he water running. Nathan grabbed him by the collar and sla

rned you not to pl

t Nathan drove his fist just below his

c sound tearing from his throat before

red in the doorway. His face tightened, though he tried t

ou'd be golfing. A

ression. Crawford was nothing more than a paras

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opened his mouth again, but a wear

t o

ing filled the room as th

ement alone was enough to make the man

ght now. I swear, b

t him off. "Or your leg

othing to him. He was so sic

to Walter, who was drinking calmly at

u sort

cour

took a swallow of the vodka Walter offered and let hi

d at him. Though she wore a modest dre

now." Walter laughed. "Come on, Kin

me for it,

hort while later, the brush against his arm told him t

oo long, Nathan King

either of them seemed to care, so

e soft press of their bodies. She slid her hand down from his shoulder,

chest, smiling playfully as she held his gaze, trying

be for both of them tonight. He proved it a mom

ould find a l

giving Walter a parting gesture;

g lot, the woman hung on his arm, h

ar, trying to carry Emma. The little girl slept peacefully in her mother's arm

e help

lready taken Emma. The girl's little arms wrappe

eat with meticulous care and, as he

p his distance for years, and in a single night

nervously with her purse while he

he had on her, and he had n

until she held her breath, and leaned in

he was fighting not to grab her and kiss her

night,

s embarrassment. But the moment Nathan fixed his eyes on her, t

back to reality. He forced himself to

ar, he drew in a hard bre

pl

tantly, and it worked. He lai

hot

e drive but regretted it when sh

?" The woman's ego was sky-h

h the Imperial, his family's property, and he stepped into the private e

tness of the way she moved. That natural elega

e the woman's hands kept mo

for a moment he imagined it w

ike a stubborn shadow, a

last, because Liz wasn't

f he were something more than a criminal. Years. A

atch her marry a m

of Liz's wedding, he'd pictured himself at

g her at every family event, turning do

the other woman demanded his attention with a

o the penthouse, and she walk

pon amount, and get out of that city where he couldn't breathe without thinki

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