Love's Shadow, A Billionaire's Tears

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e room as if they owned the place. His arm was draped posse

, both daughters of loyal Gal

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r New York, about a life outside the suffocating grip of Chicago. I talked

he tension in the room was thick en

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t in her eyes. "Do you mind, Eliana?" she asked,

my lips. "It has no

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ing in her hair, and crushed his mouth to her

and looked straight at me. His vo

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c execution of my worth. The room eru

a long moment, letting him see the co

the club, my dignity the only t