His Substitute's Billion-Dollar Secret Empire

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umming to herself as she poured herself a glass of my most expensive orange juice. She was

estured with the glass. "Connor told me to make myself at home." She took a delic

in my space after what had just happened,

," I said, m

, this robe? I can take i

rling my lip. "Keep it.

n he saw my face. "Harley, that's enough. Kat is ou

t him, incredulous. "You think she's

her kidnapped!" he yelled. "

feel of Henderson' s hands, the smell of the warehouse, the

ing my back on both of them and

ldn't wash the feeling away. I couldn't wash him away. Exhaustion finally took over, a heavy, boneless fat

eamed it all. Then I saw him. Connor was sitting on the edge of t

e, the way it used to be after we'd had a fight. "I

d, but I flinched away, reco

ch me," I

sed his face before it was replaced by frustratio

asked, my voice

e. "Henderson wasn't supposed to touch you. I was watching on a monit

ited. He let that man terrify me, tear my clothes, put his filthy hands on

at made it hard to breathe. The man who had once promised to be

iness deal. "Katerina is going to have this baby. There' s nothing we can do about that. But she doesn' t have to li

d, my voice hollow. "Wha

r own if you want. Or I can set up a trust, hire a nanny. The kid

sposal of his own child like an inconvenient piece of furniture. The ambitious,

would never say t

e," he sneered. "People chang

m dead in the eye. "You need to make a choice, Connor.

calculating stare. "I'm n

The words were cold an

said after a long pau

hought should have made me feel victo

d from downstairs, follo

eri

face a mask of alarm. "Kat!" He bolted f

t in my chest. I already knew what I would s

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