e through the Long Isl

library was thick with the smell of

lled back into a sleek, low bun, giving her a sharp, professional s

mped behind oversized sunglasses, her face pale under heavy foundation, her knuckles white around her

creen glowed with a live video feed

llins, adjusted his wire-rimmed glasses. His sharp, angular

ns's directive, since the designated bride has been substituted with Miss Chloe Rowland, the

ive million dollars is vital for the Rowland family's debt restructuring. It doe

equires the primary trust to be held solely in the bride's name," Isa

, Chloe. You aren't touching a cent of that money. You will assign every

hot. "Sign it! If you don't surrender the funds, how am I su

quietly befo

nity production company, only for Jaylon's secret business partner to sipho

said, keeping her voice meek and flat, "

over your personal Citi checking card too. Consider your three thousand dol

it hit the wood. "Hurry up and sign. Once you're out of

took t

she reached for the official Collins Consolidated trust paperwork, she deli

Pad camera, Chloe caught Is

gnating the funds into an irrevocable, court-supervised independent trust governed

e executed the irrevocable designation per state guidelines. Please sub

nch behind his lenses. The hint of a gri

s registered and locked under your exc

fore stuffing it into her binder. "Take your things and get out, Chloe. Kanesha has an

t Chloe's shoulder with an arrogant sn

the desk until their foot

eanwhile, Chloe had just secured ironclad legal ownership of five million dollars in c

ck nylon travel bag containing two finance textbooks and

an unmarked black Lin

rry into the passenger seat with her coat pulled o

ified of damaging his single-heartthrob market value, so he was smuggl

of the drive, kicking u

watch. It was ex

ar of heavy engines bro

ate gates in a rigid V-formation, crushing the weeds on the grave

r bag and pushed o