tment, making the dust motes dance in the air. Crockett sat in a ridiculous

htmares. He had played his part, murmuring soothing words, stroking her hair, but his mind was elsewh

vibration from his pho

of the Winters family office. A man who would never, eve

h clenched. He an

panic. "Sir, there have been several... highly unusual, large-scal

own deepened.

h. "In total... just over

anding on Delila's white silk rug and leaving

Had she bought a

" he asked, his vo

ngs,' into the stock market. Small-cap tech stocks, sir. Junk, by all acc

e. He knew they were hosting a privat

re of calculated, public humiliation. She wasn't just spending his mon

his was a declaration of war on his a

tracked inquiries from Phoenix Holdings to Gideon Holt. It appears t

r, unadulterated stupidity of it was breath

pathetic act of a woman scorned, a woman trying to wound him by wasting

should we fr

cold as a shard of ice. "Let her buy. Let's see ju

is fury. It wasn't about the money. Ninety million was a roundi

ary in a gilded cage. A creature that would be helpless wit

orway. She padded towards him, clutching her silk robe. "W

mplicated history, he shrugged her o

was quickly replaced by her signature expression of wounde

bbed his jacket from

said, his voice flat and hard. He didn't

g back to t

he was going to remind her, in no u