yna's eyes open. Fluorescent lights glared overhead,
ing pain in her cracked ribs stole the breath from her lungs.
ruck's blinding high beams, the spinning crash, the thick smoke, and the dee
he plastic admission band read:
a private suite and alerted the Smith family office. And Jordon-bleeding from a cracked skull in his pen
he private room swung open with a violen
hair perfectly combed without a single strand out of place. There was no fatherly worry in h
ed in sand, a fragile shred of instin
hed to the foot of the bed, towering over her like an executioner. "You smashed a w
aw, broken rasp. "He was naked in our future bed with my assistant,
in the air, dismissing her words a
nly thing securing our credit lines across Wall Street-and the very deal funding that little indie game studio you are so obse
weaponized to defend a cheating coward,
fter that?" she whispered, he
e darkening with absolute authority. "You will check out of this hospital today. You will go to Jordon's apartm
her blood, a wave of profound, phy
into his furious eyes. "I would rather rot in the gutter an
us shade of purple. He jabbed a
rality clause in Clara's estate trust before the sun sets. I am the sole legal executor. I will freeze every single bank account to your name, cut off your
ned fiercely behind her eyelids, but she refused to give him the satisfaction of seeing her break. She
w laugh scraped
nbreakable fire. "Take every single cent. I would beg on the sidewal
st. "You'll be begging on your
vy door behind him, the concussive forc
nto a suffocati
r bruised face with her trembling hands and began to sob, the sound tearing from her throat in ugly, broken, gasp
ic
d open with ne
k jacket and grease-stained jeans, holding a steaming
so hard a muscle ticked violently in his tanned cheek. A dark, dangerous sha
heavy work boots making almost
, pulled a clean, folded white napkin from
jagged scar over his left eyebrow. The stranger from the burning wreckage. The man wi
rs brushing his calloused hand. "Thank
s forearms on his knees. "Cruz Clayton," his voice was a deep, grav
rugged strength. He looked completely foreign in this sterile private
nly allowed family control if she was unmarried. If she was legally wed, the
te gamble spark
pped the edge of the hospital blanket until her knare you
stiffening almost imperceptibly. H
shuddering breath,
ge. On paper only. I need a legal husband to block my father from seizing my mother's trust fund. I'll pay y
g against her ribs, waiting for him to
e dark, possessive gleam that flared deep in his pupils. He tapped his thick finge
his dark eyes locked onto hers wi
," he
t room, settling the agreement w
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