oe

speechless, the bloo

ty. "Xavier," I said calmly, "you don't miss me. You miss

he shouted desper

you wouldn't have stood by and watched Babette humiliate me. If you really l

knife, twisting i

hloe, don't say that to Xavier, he w

o them, my eyes like ice. "

se. The debt for raising me, I will find a way to

re you saying! We raised you for al

l these years, so you could sell me fo

led it out. The name "Beckett S

ett

find the woman Anton had arrange

ctly accentuated by her silk dress. She was

d smile, her arms reaching around my

dn't want. The air was thick with her perfume, and all I coul

nger. The way I had lost control. All of it was a pathetic attemp

y back. "Forget the drink. Let's do something more interesti

't the touch I wanted. It was

her wrists. "Get out." T

She snatched her purse and

Chloe, then tried to replace her as if she were nothing more than a broken

ant just any woman. I wanted Chloe. I wanted the woman who

e. I found her name and pressed call. I needed to hear her voice, n

w breath, trying

ow and controlled, suppressing the d