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set it to silent mode. For a military strategist

Jared simmer in the silence of his own greed, the mor

, her phone screen lit u

Did you se

w I hurt you, but I wan

or you at our old spot

the dam

begging you. Just giv

lation to panicked pleading was almost comedic. Jared had thirty mill

room, downstairs, the poison in the Est

l they bled. "Mother, she's doing it again! Jared texted her! What if s

. "She won't get the chance. If your father won't kick her out

series of high-resolution digital file

's exact height and hair color had been staged in a dimly

men, surrounded by lines of white powder and em

r eyes burning with pure malice. "And make sure the link is f

s later, the

ing number one across

GH-END DRUG DEN: THE DISGR

cutive calls from the firm's largest institutional shareholders, ea

agile ego snapped

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ly kicked open, the brass latch sp

es wild with the unhinged rage of a man who believed

e corridor, their faces masks of performative s

ing a stack of printed tabloid pri

you have done to my name! The board is in revolt! The Callahan family is goin

glanced at the papers scattered across the floor, no

she said, her voice flat, de

! I have tolerated your existence for nineteen years out of respect for your mother, but no more! Today, I disown you! You will be l

sence of a father's love. She thought of her true father in the Star Alliance-a warrior who had stood b

screaming?" Just

issive question was

tor howled, his reason co

veteran businessman with a heavy frame, his palm swung forward with bone-crack

gerly, her eyes wide with vicious ecstasy, desperate

scending strike, Justine's mil

block. She

icro-step backward, tilting her neck at an angle of fifteen deg

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