The Exiled Bride: Shattered By Four Brothers

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into the university's central administration bui

y physical research transcripts an

ineering wing were already humm

ffice, the sound of shrill laught

ity were leaning against the l

Sabrina Vance, Calla

her eyes lit up wit

na announced, loud enough for twenty passing stu

ding my leather fol

e me,"

ectly into my path,

eg the dean to give you your admission back? Calla already took your desk in

," I

her eyes dropping

ndant-a custom miniature camera and sensor casing

gs and our earliest field da

Sabrina reached out

ghed, tugging it hard. "Did you steal this fro

into the bac

exes to

wrist in a vise-like grip, and twisted

in, her knees buckling

screamed. "You'r

r's things," I said,

r wrist, push

o friends, clutching her red

are? You're just a scholarship charity case who latched onto the Sutton family! Jorde

stopped, whispering and

Jorden proposed to her on Friday, b

lla's medical records so Calla wo

clinging to men who cle

leather folder

hallway, the heavy do

ounding Calla like a pre

a's designer backpack o

ck of freshly p

the wireless headphon

ng firmly on the small of her back, guiding h

the commotion, h

rides toward us, the crowd

rd, her hands clas

to her friend's side. "What happ

finger at me. "I just asked her about her class schedul

her eyes wide with

cross the entire corridor. "If you hate me, take it out on m

Calla," I

orward, his fac

er?" Dylan growled, droppin

his hand, st

f me, his height castin

ght, his dark eyes burn

voice low and vibrating with suppressed anger. "Attacking stud

y mother's pen

lied instantly, crying behind

't even loo

care about

about decoru

id coldly. "First at the St. Regis, and now here. You are representing

t you," I said. "

his voice droppi

the transport arrives. If you cause another scene before three o'clock, I

od wen

the Sutton industrial labs, losing three

was my father's only so

hispered, "and I will burn your fami

a brief spark of surprise,

murmured. "Go

speak ano

ar's office, took my sealed envelope fro

y studio apartment, double-check

of wood splinteri

open, slamming agai

t, kicking my kitchen

den, with Calla trailing behind, dabb

an roared, stormin

standing in the center of the livin

custom sapphire pendant! The one her grandmother left her! It was in her lock

uch her pend

from the doorway, his coat unbuttoned

step toward Jorden. "You do not have a warran

set doors. "The building lease is registered under a Sutton su

shelf, sending textbooks and techni

s, flinging pens, calipers, and t

them ransa

ated this apartment lik

had

my couch when

e and left their lau

ght it was

ught it w

was

n me as a human be

nity that came wi

oom wardrobe, tearin

ooking at the

lothes?" Dylan mu

ned the ha

said, glancing back at Jorden. "

over to the

ontaining my official Borealis contract, stamped with th

up, flipping th

tening. "Look at the seal. It's a Level-5 classified

he binder, his lips

. "She thinks if she packs her bags, we'll beg her

uddenly cried from th

hing into the narrow gap between t

olding a delicate platinum c

gasped, holding it out to Dylan. "Why wou

h raw disgust. "She hid it there before she left t

here," I said, looki

ylan, clutching the n

, if you wanted a sapphire, I would have bought yo

steady and cold. "You slipped it

lled, taking a mena

ing in front of my desk where m

ed the

voice flat. "Did she finish

ked the trackpad, and sa

ng. "She didn't touch it. She left

didn't

from the port, dropped it onto the hardwood floo

stic sh

ic disk cracked wit

stone," Jorden said, his eyes cold as ice,

his boot

ve her to freeze. She'll realize what s

ed out, o

the broken doo

n the wreckage

the crushed hard

t the digital cl

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til my esco

, walked out the shattered