er thoughts, hadn't realized the room had become silent. She cauti

re you

k the perfect moment. Wasn't it too soon to have Jon her

f person you really are if I hadn'

sive smile. "Isn't that the role I've played all t

intercepted them, tomorrow's headlines would scream about the

oncerned about the company's reput

eart

ndal and his pride, he would surely cast her aside knowing she was with another man. Y

" Dayna said, maintaining

on't cut it." Jon rose to hi

g on her toes to pl

eclared, shoving her aw

yna's strength deserted her;

cut into her skin, blood seeping

the strength to stand. She retreated to the ba

yna a temporary reprieve from the peri

el, Dayna noticed the o

e her. "Miss Allen, Mrs. Mat

, Dayna opened the car d

rty minutes before they arri

honda flung a thin mat at her feet. Wi

leased, headed insid

til all were extinguished, leaving Dayna enveloped in darkness.

the sky, the private investigator f

umbness had taken over her legs, and when she attempted to

her off to a luxurious sanatoriu

to collect herself, adjusting her clothes and smoothi

face etched with panic, and blurted out to a

into the room, only to find the bed in complete d

d moved Susan after discovering the leak

ility on her own. She had no means of transportation, strugg

yna wasted no time in

es of a fall along the hillside path. Given the ste

ld do was wai

eared in her sight. Raising h

she asked, confusi

e you left her," Jon explai

entrusted Caroline with a note. She implored Caroli

n social standing between Caroline and Jon was vast, and Caroline didn't eve

ou tell me?"

r mother if you had known?

," Jon countered. Yet Dayna had opted to confron

ayna covered her face, regretting her decis

ayed. His assistant arrived bearing food, following Jo

to eat something," the

rescue team, slicing through the ten

Dayna sprang from her seat, he

plummeted as she saw the rescue team approach,

ard, his arms open to comfort Dayna, but