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! Let me tak

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hollow, like it was coming from som

did. I was the one who had decorated the place. I'd spent three weeks obsessing ov

sted m

ked like a glowing circuit board beneath me, full of millions of people who wer

ust turned arou

swallowed the sound of my heels, and the recessed lighting gav

y override code. Four

d open with a s

ered in the back of my mind. Just walk

pushed th

n. Every chandelier was blazing, turning the space

ere th

that cost forty thousand dollars because Zayden

me come in. Or maybe

ed me in years-was clinging to he

I couldn't breath

look up. Her eyes met m

dn't even shake. "Need a few

ped. There was no sound to it

e finally looked at me, his eyes wer

out,

s. That wa

ce finally broke.

mpletely normal. "You stopped being my wife years ago, Saint. You're just the woman

hoked out. "I've

ove being a Costas. You love the house and the cars an

climbed off the table, making no effort to co

erry from the counter and took a slow bite. "You're jus

my direction. "Zayden needs s

lean against the doorfra

cur

ad to yell. He

d how long they'd been standing there. Had they

Mr. Co

ostas out. She

your

re no

ject. A pretty UCLA girl who needed saving. I saved you. I gave you ev

didn't need to be-but they were firm. Professio

was blurring my vision. "P

were broken when I found you. I just got tire

his name, my voice echoing off the marble wall

t, Scarlett lifted her hand and

The little girl I held after every nightmare

rs seal

. The mirrors reflected my ruin from every angle. Saint Erina stared ba

with mascara streaming down my cheek

m watch