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lf it was probably just someone trying to rattle me, I cou

ssage over and

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he voice. No anger, no ur

ified me more

have threatened me. They would have told me to watch

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as a w

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ing Su

ian's penthouse

lyn was no longer a suitable place for "Damian Blackwood's fiancée" to live. And so, after

I had expected wh

od in a t-shirt? D

ming mug of coffee in his hand, looking completely

" he said with

yes. "Are you-m

, where a single, perfectly cut

er that breakf

ruthless CEO. The man who could comman

as eatin

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icked up to

t, neither

his coffee do

say. I wasn't sure if I wanted to bring up the call-if

he eve

nk I was bei

hint of vulnerability, anything that woul

lackwood was

, "Whoever called you last nig

something cro

as quickly,

do yo

eting, looking like someone had just told you the world w

le

flinch. Didn

hesitation, the subtl

t go,

king my head.

ned. "It doesn

to be playing the role

ever part o

er now, colder. But

o let him s

k," I said, stepping closer. "Not wh

unter. "You wanted the truth about your fa

truth puts

his express

, I thought he was

is phon

at the screen-and the tens

ely, that it was

ne tightened slightly, his jaw c

said, his

aw the change in his posture-the slight stiffening of his shoulders,

he ended the call, he

erst

hone down, I said

dn't

a slow sip, and then-**as if nothing had

ed. "Ex

nless you plan on meeting the press in that," he gesture

"Where ar

one again, tapping out

at him.

anned for months, and since we're now engaged,

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fficially my f

outh to argue

mething wa

y he was brushing everything

ing," I sa

't flinch.

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of si

im, Damian Blackwood did something tha

smi

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," he called over his shou

ike that,

alizing far too late that I had just ste