nnan estate, sharp stones cutting into her soles as she sprint
er wrist upstairs, Barclay had called off the engagement in dis
Stop th
front of the lead armored Ma
eeched across the gravel, the heavy chrome
wn halfway. Chief assistant Ira Perk
side. Mr. Reid is o
r door and slapped her bloodstained right hand agai
! Open t
sharp profile. Sitting in his wheelchair inside the cabin,
ers?" His voice was low, his right index fin
handle, and pulled the door open before the guards cou
arwood. Barclay's brows knitte
t o
his lapels with her right hand and
Right now.
a second, then let out
n hour ago, and now begging for marri
his fingers around her right wrist, p
ed her head, opened her mouth, and sank h
cket and bit deep into the hard muscle beneathand drew the handgun from his
os
ing out on his forehead. He didn't push the trembling
wrist still seeping blood through a curtain cord while her teeth s
d coated her tongue. Slowly, she unclenched her jaws
she stared strai
ll know that the head of the Reid conglomerate is a cow
Adam's apple bobbing once before a low
cing her head up as his rough thumb wipe
ath brushed the tip of her nose. "B
ache in her jaw
go to City
er chin and smooth
he ordered th
ipped on the s
sure? The fa
yself?" Barclay's voic
gates. Alyce's spine finally loosened, and
her left wrist split open again from the stru
nt seat, Ira reached into the cabin's built-in medical
till closed. "Press the wound. I have no use for a
e gash, wound the elastic wrap around her wrist in firm, even layers, then wrapped the black silk h
s brow twitched slightly at the crisp,
he Manhattan traffic ahead, the
columns of City Hall rising ahead, her fing
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