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s quiet when

my heels against the marble floors echoed the

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on. Pale skin, wide eye

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home!" Salvo's

are you?" Xan

nto the li

ir loosened ties, slumping their sho

ment?" Xander asked,

e, his hands reaching for my ankles.

, as if a thousand spiders w

g in me not to ki

fine," I said, my voice steady.

himself a drink. "You don't have

ture," I said. "About

we need to handle the trust fund transfer, Nessa.

m his jacket pocket. It

thly. "This just authorizes me to mana

k the

management a

devastating clause: Signatory voluntarily waives all parental rights and transf

ust stealin

tealing

my child and rai

the face of an angel to

ou, Xander

he desk, picked up

dn't sig

icked the visual shape of my signat

r breathed, snatching th

burner phones buzzed

ens, and the atmosphe

putting down his drink. "The Unde

said, kissing my foreh

hurri

, something fell

flower. A groo

door clicked shut

dentical to the ones i

a meeting. They had co

hem head toward the Guest House-Buil

Rissa

and dialed a number

id when the l

was raspy. He had been my mother's Con

e trust," I o

your f

' clause my mother wrote. If Salvo or his associates attempt to

ning. "It will take ten days for the full

dering channels. Stop the flow to X

on

ung

one p

os arrived from

r's hand on Rissa's stomach-she was ba

n: My True

voice

ssed

oneymoon suite, Nessa? They're stained with everything he couldn't giv

ing photo of Xander

and threw it in

ass sh

round the edges of his smil

" I wh