Love and Seduction
lungs burned as if she had been drowning, her heart raced, and her vision was a chaotic blur. She gas
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ic surged, but as she stumbled to the cracked mirror across the dimly lit room, the reflectio
ile, the betrayal of her so-called allies, the burning agony
d, reborn in the
aunting illusion? Her trembling fingers traced her jawline, h
a flood of emotions-fear, con
an she had trusted... and who had plunged t
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co, and it was a double surprise because she had just found out she was pregna
woman in their matrimonial bed-not just
ot bothering to cover himself. "T
se on their faces. "But why? W
Who would be happy with someone that's a liabili
She'd left her wealth just to be with him. She'd u
thout me," she yelled, but this o
n his clothes. "I'd have been far better than thi
n clawed at her. "I'm pregnant, Marc
etty's laughter shattered it. "Oh, please! Pregn
..." Bella whispered,
h venom, "she's been away so often for her so-cal
lie! Marco, you know
of doubt taking root. "You've always been so pe
"Please, you know I love you.
l. He exchanged a look with Betty,
rms, shoving her to the floor. "If you think I'll l
" she sobbed, strugglin
ty whispered, kneeling beside the
widened. "Wha
sk of cold determinat
, and before she could scream
s smile, twisted in triumph,
s swall
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. now she
voice a venomous promise.
ced herself to breathe. Panic would not help
head light, and a sparse, battered wardrobe. She found a phone on the bed, an old model, but functional. When
she murmured, the concept b
ile stretched
. Marco. His loyal lackeys. T
hance to rewrite everyth
d a plan. Barging in headfirst would be suicide. The De Luca family-the same
f the criminal underworld. A woman who had learn
ring on the screen: "Sofia, you sta
ew name. Her
Fate was practically ha
laced with venom. "You took everyt