metal pulled her memory back to the rainy night at JFK Airport
into her IV tube, and stepped barefoot onto the cold floor tiles. Walking to th
ow rumble of two bodyguards talking. Flora moved silently to the
on the helipad earlier? Even the Coast G
u recognize the Kirkland conglomerate emblem? The boss of
t really was Esteban. Despite three years of silence, the billionaire
fe, and left the night another woman's name lit up his pho
ts list. Her thumb hovered over the number that had been blacklisted for three
to Europe the first morning after. To bury the scandal, he married Flora six months later-because she had
with an incoming FaceTime call fro
pped accept. Chloe's anxious face fi
Jensen yacht capsized off
eyes with a cold smile. "But I need
s tower, I'm in," Chloe said through gritted teeth. As Manhatt
f our marital assets, along with my resignation lett
end, her coffee mug sli
oy? He'll never sign it. He treat
m, Chloe. I've th
five-million-dollar check on the nightstand. They quickly went over the legal clauses, and Flora instru
f the bed and tapped her Apple Watch, con
s internal system. She typed in an encrypted command, pulled three years of trust fund transfer
hundred percent, the electroni
sh, dropping back onto the pillows and c
ked in and placed several lux
discharged tomorrow morning to attend Old Mrs.
of acknowledgment, keeping h
the top bag. Inside lay a heavy pigeon-blood ruby necklace-Eloy's st
in his closet months ago-one she
tood up and dropped the box straight inpers and climbed into the back of the town car
expressway. Flora pulled out her phone, snapped a casual photo of the Long Islan
a notification banner dropped
d her breath caug
ers-an account that followed only her-had just liked
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