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ght, screaming red. The Maxwell Group's stoc

led, Bride Mysteriously Vanishes. Billion-Dollar Merger in Jeopardy After Soc

esk. The force of it rattled a porcelain teacup. My carefully

t was wrinkled, his eyes were bloodshot, and he

manage one simple woman." My anger wasn't about his infidelity-I couldn't care less about t

e whined, shifting his weight like a guil

liant woman burns down a hotel corridor and then vanishes off the fa

ct we have. The police, private investigators... Ms. Mayo has no credit card ac

I didn't believe it. Darcie Mayo didn't have the spi

ou do to her, Hugh? What did you do to

omething about a small argument, but I saw the lie written all over his weak

petence later. "The official story is that Darcie had a su

thout knocking. His expression was grim. That alone set m

drive on my desk. "Gwendolyn. We

tened. "What wa

accessed one thing." He paused, and the air in the room grew heavy. "A preliminary audit report on the Gro

k. That file was my life's work. It was the architecture of our empire, the gray area where ou

over's revenge. This w

e a low, venomous hiss. "

ling with a naive little girl. We had been nurturing a v