oe
ust stood there, her eyes fixed on me, filled with a venomous calculation that made my skin crawl. I was n
. Held in limbo while a family of billionaires scrutinized my past, searching fo
e hope for escape
R teams arrived, bringing the revised contra
rp and professional, the Ca
rly all personal rights and leaving only the obligation to cooperate with their PR machine. I wasn't a
bled. It was hush money. They were paying Frey
her head when she saw the number.
more. It was a sale. And I wa
he team was about to leave, the chief coun
aid professionally. "Mr. Carlisle is receiving the best
out with greedy eyes. I knew my stepsister better than anyone. She could
looked up, feigning a look of immense reli
Mr. Carlisle can wake up and recover, this marriage will actually be quite
wisted with jealousy and spite. Sh
evere brain bleed from a hockey puck? Let's be realistic. He's practically a corpse on life support. Yo
Instead, she let out
, toxic and vile. The air
ne. They stared at Emma and Freya, their
r callousness, their
t, his face a thunderclou
e, trembling with rage and
did yo
ve come to drop off the final papers herself, slipping in quiet
Her eyes were locked on Emma and Freya,
rified. They hadn't exp
ay it again!" Eleanor advanced on
" Freya stammered, backing away and
with the pain of a mother who had just heard the
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