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d walls. The contract burned a hole in her leather briefcase. Every instinct told her to run, b

omething out of a billionaire's fantasy-glass walls, ivory marble,

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of nerve, summ

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ing it with Moretti Holdings..

onths. We play the perfect couple. You get financ

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ook beautiful. Be obedient-publicly. Privately..." His

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, her voice quieter now. "There are w

challenge me. You do. You make me bleed.

box shut. "This is ex

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apses. Your employees scatter. Your name, your reputation-it all dies. Or...

ation, and a strange flicker of e

"If I do this, I'

I want loyalty. Fire. A woman who won't

he game so ruthlessly. For seeing her as an equal opponent. She hate

chin. "Six mont

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