sm
link. Thanks to the master access credentials I'd quietly retained after helping design parts of Sterl
latform and the massive screen inside the headquarters, where their late-n
et, slick sex noises from
straight at me. Instead of panicking, a slow, incredibly smug s
tentionally shifting her weight to stay tangled with m
lor when he saw me standing in the doorway. He scrambled backward, nearly
wisted in my chest. Three years of love, sacr
feeling d
t not
shaking as he tried to cover his chest. "I swear, I... we were just...
t cry. My expression re
ou are fucking your stepsister right now? The same one you told me I was insecure about?"
with venom. "You've been a ghost in his life for three years. A penniless, boring drag. He deserves
ase," I murmured, e
perfect air conditioning. "Jasmine, please. Just put the p
ubt that." I glanced at my phone scr
Victoria yelled, finally realizing something was wrong as
the bed, reaching aggressively to snatch the phone
mlessly, completel
moving too fast to read, thousands of furious investors screaming for answers. News reports were already breaking. The headline at the
just plummeted by 8% in
e stocks kept falling, an
company. He froze, looking from his phone to me, his chest heaving w
nger, and let it drop. It hit the hardwood floor with a sharp click, rolling right t
icially asking
had drained from his face.
looked directly into the
erling name is a liabi
, turned on my hee
sonal clothes and a small box of sentimental items I'd kept from my life before this marr
as already wa
d up. Rain was pouring down in sheets. Standing under the grand porch was Jason's stepmoth
w the bags straight past me. They landed with a heavy, w
ic little stunt! How dare you! Look at you! You're leaving here with absolutely nothing, just like the day you dragged your penniless feet into this h
cheap bags soaking in the m
ne smile broke
am leaving with nothing
to glare down her nose at me. "Go on! Walk down the street in the rai
ed over the wet clothes, walk
'll get what's coming
e driveway, Eleanor's expression suddenly changed. Her ran
dark stre
h the heavy rain. One pair
y turne
orm. A flawless convoy of six sleek, armored black SUVs pulled up to the c
vehicle in fro
n. He didn't care about the water. He walked straight toward me, stopping e
ear and commanding. "The global board of directo
inside the dry, leather-scente
s standing frozen at the edge of the porch, the driving rain soaking her
since I'd known her
ion disappear
did my
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