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room while orchestra music and clinking glass
on his right index finger pressing tight agains
iaran W
f the line go completely silent. A second lat
you get this numb
ting on my pale face. "Your wife just delivered twins by herself,
mpagne flute shattering on the floor, followed by
oney, what
athing came through the li
lock! Don't think you can stick
be about New York's captain abandoning his wife
call without wait
tear fell. Three years of hiding our marriage and swallowing m
greement onto our dining table, demanding I step asid
s just an ordinary woman from the Hayes family
walked to the water dispenser,
feel embarrassed
g against his warm palm, and his calm pres
ing my black-rimmed glasses up the bridge of my
iaran's steel-blue eyes befo
to you, Mrs
aeve Whitlock, walked in cradling her own newborn b
bassinet and tucked a soft cashmere baby blanket e
said, squeezing my cold hand. "If you need a
ran gave me a brief nod, he led his
ag on the nightstand, pulled out the divorce papers Lan
attending obstetrician, Dr. Quentin Summerli
, his eyes shining behind his gold-rimmed glas
bing you so late," Dr. Quentin s
papers under my pillow
ng wrong with the b
and slid the folder, stamped with the seal o
wins, the system triggered an automatic match with Nor
ge and stared at the genetic markers linking
nship match at the bottom. "The baby girl we lost in Boston twenty-three years ago... You are my older
my ribs as I stared at the name of the billionaire family
id maid by the Hayes family and looked down
t with a trembling han
. From tonight on, no one will
steps echoed rapidly as Landon's arrog
fe in? Where the hel
d as he closed the DNA folder and stood up straight in front of my b
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