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d exit to Monaco, I was review

ews alert from a gos

s Parents in Financial Ruin? Foreclosure Looms f

d. It was a publ

ls but heavy on insinuation. M

in Monaco, supposedly devasta

rely recognized my own voi

darling. You took Julian. I take

arents, Tori! T

she purred. "Just a sweet b

one in this particular brand of cruelty. Her earlier words about Julian being "entert

enjoyi

, my hand

y parents' B

there yet, but the air

h, his face grim. My mother

e sympathetic, some curious. T

thrown a fit when I had dinner with a female colleague. She'd smashed a

blic stripping of

than. The auditors are back. The clock is ticking. Sixty minutes. Julian

Julian's hotel, th

sage, confirming his whereabouts, fel

eady a withered thin

hatever I'd once felt for Victo

t immediately. "Good.

deposit box. Midtown. Key is in the Hamptons estate. Hidden. You have

was nearly

bout the prenup. That

istaken my sile

sweetness. "When I bring Julian back, we'll all have a lovel

hung

ia from Monaco, flaunting the "perks" of his new fake contrac

ian anymore. He was a symp

her wild goose chase. She had no idea I wa