iumphant smile spread across his fac

oward her,

ith a manufactured tremor. "I... I fee

r, she sidestepped, letting herself fall away from his grasp and

lasses. Dimmed lights. And on a bookshelf, a decor

dn't just want her rui

r her, his hands on her shoulders, his breath smellin

s starte

vulnerable girl vanished. Ana's eyes snapped open, clear

n. A long, slender stil

the tip of that steel pin was pressed against the soft skin of his th

solved into shock, then f

a low, lethal whisper, "and I'll mak

"Do you have any

e pressure. He flinched. She forced him backward, step by step, until

in never wavering. Her gaze fl

dripping with contempt, "that she picked a decent

lor drained from C

e is not a game. This is your only warning. Try this again, and

sliding the hairpin

to the vase, directly into the camera's line of sigh

ed a single,

ch

the sofa, she turned and walked out

as he brought it to his neck. His fin

she raised a glass of champagne. Her

y into the Travis family," Constance sai

ectionately. "If the company weren't in

amily. Marrying that bastard Ana off to

obody-deserved a life of squalor,

playboy with no ambition. Even if Ana m

open. Preston Kirk stormed

re's