The CEO's Final Gift

lilies fill

e. It clung to the curtains, the furniture, h

, his phone pressed to his ear. He didn't

ing, his voice low and soft, a tone he never used

hten. An old, familiar alle

ess merger, a cold transaction designed to save his family's pride and chain he

ilence that followed was co

ila folder onto the marble coffee table. It slid acro

ce Pa

in stark, black ink a

ttie, his childhood sweetheart, had resurfaced two months ago, thi

r family used this marriage to crush the Kennedys. Now, I'm tak

her's best friend, who promised to protect her always. That memory w

said, her voice

the color of a stormy sea, were fill

Hettie is back. She

was a ha

e, foolish plan had formed in her mind over th

nant too

t was a short

ed a bed in three years. Stop this disgu

ing their scent deeply, a smile touching his lips for the

roke. The last thread of hope she had been clingin

al ache the doctors had warned her about.

uld never

ld not be the reason he was pitied,

eedom, she woul

of

a pen, and signed her name on the d

rolled to a number she hadn't called

"Prepare the paperwork. I'm transferring all of

you insane? After e

arissa lied smoothly. "Just do it.

before Darcy

er, a flicker of surprise in his cold ey

. Her love, her youth, her c

y to truly set him