erself to swallow down the suffocating panic that clawed at her throat. She dug her fingernails so deeply into her palms that the sharp pain grounded her, dragging her mind back
nd and wiped it hard across her mouth.
arrowed slightly, tracking the obvious, visc
sed his hands and calmly adjusted his suit cuffs, shooting them p
shook, but anger was beginning to burn through h
esk, the leather of his shoes silent against the floor. He sat down in his
llion-dollar corporate rescue, M
iated anger flush her cheeks. Her
she accused, her voice rising
eek, black leather folder sitting perfectly centered on his
and slid it across the polished wood. It
lead. Her eyes darted frantically between the intim
ck ink at the top of the first
ement and Contr
he quiet room. She looked up at him in absolute di
voice devoid of any emotion. "I will clear your father's
iolently. Her damp hair w
her voice breathless. "Why? Wh
He lied with the smooth, practi
id. "They want to see stability. A respec
dark eyes drag over her
his tone, "given your current bankrupt
rained from her head. The harsh, clinical business valu
to Jerrad Hutchinson," she argue
The sound was ha
company's stock," Gerard reminded her. "He abandone
it into her palms. She hated it, but she knew Gerard was ab
rejection, a violent buzzin
ed aggressively in he
bright screen illuminated the dim room. The
tight. She turned slightly away from
said, her v
ugh in the quiet room. "This is a courtesy call. The foreclosure on the Gonza
ne tight. "Just give me a forty-eight-hour
coldly. "Have your bel
ne wen
b. The crushing reality of her total destitution crashed
ked up his expensive silver pen and tapped it
heavy Rolex on
pires in exactly twelve
g it tightly around herself like a fragile suit of armor. S
to think," sh
ally ran out of the office, her heels clicking frantic

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