Trapped in a Billionaire's Web

dn't com

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unfamiliar luxury

the m

as back. And he

st seen him, where I had made a choice to walk

w about Ethan, it was that he ne

d the message. Prete

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t him. Just

d out what

ear that my past was stayin

ri

**

e I left my room. He seemed like the type w

sitting at the marble counter, a steaming cup o

licked up the mo

d smoothly, setti

ted. "Mo

d the coffee pot.

myself a cup anyway, letting the warmth seep i

eyes on me. Watch

today?" he as

p of coffee. "No

to tell him I was meeting

dinner tonight with some associates

excuse to leave before he c

me as I turned

feel it-hi

mien Blackwood didn't

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glitz and glamour of Blackwood's world. The kind of place where

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fortlessly relaxed as he leaned back,

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was starting to thin

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on down with a soft clink. "F

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t I forced my face to stay ca

relationship with one of the most powerful men in the city? That you, the girl who s

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disbelief. "You wan

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ath ca

never did anything without e

anything," I said

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nt r

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eatened to surface. Memories of choices I

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d. "What happen

ll eventually find out the truth about you. And

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