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the whole room is watchin
h.
here just as posh, and I was left standing there in the centre of the ballroom, heels sinking
heard h
You really
ng there like she owned the night. She was holding a champagne flute like it w
ly, that so
ng to keep my tone flat.
"Only way t
glint in her eye before she even opened her mouth again.
story to tell," she said
string quartet didn't even miss a beat
hest like she was about to sing national anthem. "It's when a man
mach d
ed. "Righ
ediately. I could feel
," I said throu
o all your atas friends here why Zayden's lawyers were at you
lin
just say t
pulling out their phone. Great. Tomorrow, I'd be all over
im to save your father's failing c
. But most of all, I wanted Zayden to be b
sse, s
eyes fake-wide. "Why?
this?" I hissed.
were busy playing Mrs CEO, I was the one he used to c
ar I heard someone whi
ing. My vision blu
t str
he gala Zayden and I hosted to show we were th
e gold spray pa
ar click of polished shoes be
through the tension like g
ly. "Oh look, the groom
et mine, unreadable. "You
s
o
-our business-was now gossip
I no
t lah. She's your deal, your strategy. Not your love. Or have
ht. The crowd
didn't
last blow. "He told me... even if he married y
nce was
eneath my feet just open
of humiliation on my skin. I turned
Elara, and you walk away from everything. The title, the
fr
. My pulse was ro
I turn
muster, I said, "Better to starve
I w
ause I
longer, I was going to show them