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ing married. Don't bother packing. Old
eside her attic bed, sneering down at the twenty-yea
hloe. What man would want you otherwise? You'll be lucky if a man like
ightened beneath
their home as a foster child. For fifteen years, they had fed her scraps, for
cided to hand her over to a forty-five-y
Conrad, the silver-haired matriarch of the powerful Conrad family. When a speeding truck came hurtling toward
lly vivid in her memory. At the hospital, doctors had warned her that the damage to her eyes might be s
ent a check for a million dollars to cover her medical expenses, including
other plans f
se in the Appalachian Mountains. Freezing wind slipped through the gaps in
s!" Brenda snapped, turning toward the attic door. "That check is fr
slammed onto the
d our farm mortgage depend on this windfall! She's just a blind stray we picked up fifteen
ad risked her life to save a woman she barely knew, only to discover that the people
ntil the metallic taste o
fingernails dug into th
eatment, including a cornea transplant. But Brenda and T
biological sons than give their fo
door flew open w
l room. Brenda's heels clicked toward the bedside, and a
g his pickup over to get you at eight tomorrow
his happen. And that's not all. He's promised
head away from
y, making her voi
es until they were crippled. You can't just hand m
ater, he stormed into the attic. He grabbed the collar of Chlo
e to death in the woods! You owe the Miller family everythi
coughe
had suffered in the crash, yet her fingers
Columbia University student ID
stopped studying. She was a Columbia University student, a
ever considered her their daughter. To them, she was simply
husband's arm and
s getting tomorrow morning. Padlock the door from the
ood door sl
ace on the outside, locking
er broke out as the coupl
Travis, a new pickup and pay for their younge
hought for the girl they h
e slowly sat up o
iny corner of the g
r that the doctors had warned her the damage might be serious. Her vision was g
mory in this house, she held her brea
the three rotten plank
the cold iron latch
nd floor. Inside, stacks of old cardboard boxes had been piled beneath
d the old cardboar
iced the back of her hand
rom the radio, followed by the t
unk himself i
e pushed up the rusted w
and rain whipped her
nd gripped the w
. One slip from this two-stohloe climbed over the sill without hesitation
ams of the pipe, leaving bloody streaks as sh
ck the stone f
ot up h
to break her fall, swallowing
loor still flickered through the
no idea their p
herself up
nt hum of distant traffic, she st
tore at her thin hospi
on red-hot coals, but she d
led through
tain storm, every step
missed th
ed ditch beside the road. Freezing mud fille
k of her hand t
oth hands, she dragged herself out of t
, two blinding white beams sud
ew louder as the vehicle raced toward
e was

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