Married By midnight

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a mil

st a number. It was

p side jobs when tips were low. It seemed too crazy to be true, yet here was a woman-Joke Jone

s ridiculous. It was ins

se was hurrying toward something greater, something more. Kingsley stood motionless

buzzed in

. His

middle of the night, w

sage ap

e had the audacity to

nt in explaining-not now. His own tho

wasn't even

the q

requ

stically alter his

t up, he picked up the contract

en open. Blunt. M

ening beneath that surface. Nobody offered something like this for nothing. There were a

eeded to get married by

d at tha

't just

ionaire. Heiress. The woman who owned mo

oss from him with a proposa

r, his fingers grazing the fre

ppens i

hands, call it a

t in the crossfire

was truly going on

she ne

as she

lose if this di

And in his world, n

ll of the night with them. Kingsley slipped the contract ba

t have t

t

looking back at him with

n. 9:

house, Joke stepped

ike a movie set-dazzling lights, endless m

ould be insi

uldn't be

ve demands. Quest

t have tim

ad no oth

deal-not after everythi

of control, she entered the building, her he

Victoria was

id, not even looking up from

the urge to

that I have a l

n your plate," Victoria snapped. "

her voice cold. "I al

eyes narrow

idn't

bag and pulled out th

rfectly lined lips pressed i

said flatly, as though prepared to

e folder acr

her mother asked

ke replied, he

ing Kingsl

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ally picked

but Carmen wasn't one to stop cal

ngs

ut her voice was high-

pening? Are you refus

ing it down,"

ed. "She's worth a billion dollars! If you le

ighter. "It's not about the money. It's about what s

d as he looked at

is, Kingsley. This

t about that for a

en given

enter a world

ould be-for