Toxic Love: Falling For My Cruel Lover

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hat's this w

Yates! You

he daughter of a murderer. See

e girl sobbed from the depths of her being, t

content with the expe

striking, with sharp and pronounced featur

girl's footsteps behind him, his lip

rynn Gibson straightened up as much as she

, and traced his finger across her swollen lips,

ed, and he swal

r, yet it did nothing to dampen his pleasu

lled with shame, shut her eyes a

near. "Sir, Miss

nward, and when he lifted it, al

d and cleaned it wi

aside, her face a mi

a card from his wallet and handed it t

tled through

s she silently accepted th

e from his bodyguard. His tone softene

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her job, and after finishing her work,

e caught the sound of her mot

only one person who could b

Kelley Rayne, her older half-s

with a smile. "Br

rowned. "Kelley's now a celebrity. It's not easy

r, "Mom, it's fine. Maybe Br

? Who is she trying to im

for her older daughter, often visited

thodically peeled an apple. "I've

"I play your song 'Wander' every day. Everyone in the media says

re in the music industry, but she left the sce

d, remarried, and

eeling the appl

happy, Mom." Kelley

a that you're going to the Yates G

sm. "Being invited by the Yates Group

e you look stunning. If you

er daughter. "Brynn, give your

, a mix of disbelief and d

. "Mom, I'm just a student. It'

ses. Get the

ation, saying, "Mom, it's okay.

re my daughter! You

to her sister, looking

"Brynn! Didn't you he

re in the hospital, Dad's in jail, and our ho

Why are you brin

'm funding my studies? Do you know where I sleep? Do you k

ng to hear it. "Enough! All I want to know i

as she looked at her mother, s

ly dawned

all this time,

d her eyes.

d always known the only reason she was in this upscale private ward

pain snapped her back to reality. She looked

you're i

her, but Brynn's co

ard, Jayne's angry

r her? I could have been a legend in the music industry! It's all because of her and

illed with cri

a weary Brynn felt her phone vibrate. Its dis

as not her usual phone, and answered. The vo

to my

ead before she

sn't feeling up to it toda

quest would only lead

st her 120 dollars, erasing the ear

x, hardly the place one would expect the af

a potted plant beside the

the sofa, a lit cigarette dangling from h

ake a shower,"

e gestured with hi

seemed slightly different

ed, then move

with her until

sofa, his dark gaze inten

uddenly, Lawrence drew close, biting her earlobe. In th